53 Motivational Quotes for Work Success

Ever since childhood, each and every one of us has dreamed about what we want to do for a living. But even if we do find our dream job or career, there are some days you’ll wish you could just go home for the day. If you ever feel like you need a little motivation to get through the workday, check out these motivational quotes for work!

These quotes can remind you why you’re working hard and inspire you to keep going. So, the next time you’re feeling down or stuck in a rut, read one of these 53 motivational quotes and let it motivate you to push through! You’ll be glad you did. Enjoy!

Let the motivational quotes for work begin!

1) “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

53 Motivational Quotes for Work - "A year from now you may wish you had started today." - Karen Lamb
colterreed.com

2) “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz

3) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act. But a habit.” – Aristotle

Motivational Quotes for Work by Theodore Roosevelt

4) “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

53 Motivational Quotes for Work - "Believe you can and you’re halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
Twitter / @nyspta/status

5) “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

6) “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

7) “Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

8) “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ” – Alexander Graham Bell

9) “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

10) “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.” – Richard Branson

11) “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen

12) “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

13) “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” – John F Kennedy

14) “Failure is not the opposite of success: it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington

Follow your dreams…

15) “Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then, by all means, you should follow that.” – Ellen Degeneres

"Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then, by all means, you should follow that." - Ellen Degeneres
Pinterest

16) “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” – Thomas Carlyle

17) “Your goal should be just out of reach. But not out of sight.” – Remi Witt

18) “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer

19) “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson

20) “I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau

Motivational Quotes for Work by Abraham Lincoln

21) “If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe.” – Abraham Lincoln

"If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe." - Abraham Lincoln
Facebook / Ubertor Real Estate Websites

22) “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

23) “Innovation distinguishes from a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

24) “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking

25) “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

26) “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

27) “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

28) “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” – Dalai Lama

29) “Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.” – Stanley McChrystal

More Motivational Quotes for Work.

30) “Light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Light tomorrow with today." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
passiton.com

31) “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” – Seneca

32) “If a mind thinks with a believing attitude, one can do amazing things.” – Norman Vincent Peale

33) “You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” – Trina Paulus

34) “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale

35) “Not knowing you can’t do something is sometimes all it takes to do it.” – Ally Carter

36) “Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.” – Maya Angelou

37) “One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.” – Viggo Mortensen

38) “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

39) “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

40) “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” – Henry Ford

41) “You are not your resume, you are your work.” – Seth Godin

42) “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into visible.” – Tony Robbins

43) “If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.” – Ernest Hemingway

44) “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

Just remember that everything is possible.

45) “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” – Tricia Cunningham

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it." - Tricia Cunningham
pixabay.com

46) “Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.” – Denis Waitley

47) “Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” – A.C. Benson

48) “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

49) “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho

50) “When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.” – Karen E. Quinones Miller

51) “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” – Henry Ford

52) “If you are not where you want to be, do not quit, Instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.” – Eric Thomas

53) “Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz

I hope you enjoyed these motivational quotes for work!

Happy Jim Carrey GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY
giphy.com

Please share these motivational quotes for work with your friends and family.

Facebook Comments