ᐅShort Inspirational Quotes for Work, Success and Team

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

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” —Kurt Cobain

“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” —Shonda Rhimes

“If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” —Wayne Dyer

“The hard days are what make you stronger.” —Aly Raisman

“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” —Sheryl Sandberg

“Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary.” —Ross Simmonds

“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” —Isabelle Lafleche

“Impossible is just an opinion.” —Paulo Coelho

“If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.” —Catherine Pulsifer

“If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” —Michele Ruiz

“I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours?’” —Leah Busque

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” —Stephen McCranie

“Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” —Biz Stone

“When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.” —Larry Ellison

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer.” —Albert Camus

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” —William Durant

“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” — Dhirubhai Ambani

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” —Steve Martin

“If you hear a voice within you, say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means, paint, and that voice will be silenced.” —Vincent Van Gogh

“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” —Rumi

“If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” —John Rockefeller

“We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” —Marie Curie

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” —Sydney Harris

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work”. —Stephen King

“Success is my only option, failure’s not.” —Eminem

“It’s always the hard part that creates value.” —Seth Godin

“You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” —Zig Ziglar

“Dream big and dare to fail.” —Norman Vaughan

“If you look for perfection, you will never be content.” —Leo Tolstoy

“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” —Tom Stoppard

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” —Robert Schuller

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one” —Dolly Parton

“If plan ‘A’ doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan.” —Claire Cook

“I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible.” —Robert Schuller

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” —Oprah Winfrey

“Challenges are what makes life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” —Joshua J. Marine

“Self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do.” —Clayton M. Christensen

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” —Maya Angelou

“Always deliver more than expected.” —Larry Page

“You can have results or excuses. Not both.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.” —Walt Disney

“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” —Vince Lombardi

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” ―Arthur C. Clarke

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” —Colin Powell

“If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.” ―Clayton M. Christensen

“Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.” —Unknown

“If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill

“You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” —Unknown

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” —Steve Jobs

“To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.” —Dorothy West

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” ―Vernon Sanders Law

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” —Will Rogers

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” —Winston Churchill

“Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together.” —Diane McLaren

“It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.” —Walter Anderson

“When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale

“When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” —Mark Twain

“Learn as if you will live forever. Live like you will die tomorrow.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” —Albert Einstein

“The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.” —John C. Maxwell

“It’s always too soon to quit!” —Norman Vincent Peale

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn.” —Helen Keller

“As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.” —Dr. Steve Maraboli

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you…never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” —Abraham Lincoln

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” —James A. Michener

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” —Walter Elliot

“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” —Mignon McLaughlin

“Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” —Louis Pasteur

“I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.” —Marie Curie

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.” —Mary Anne Radmacher

“What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?” —Karen Salmansohn

“Failure is success in progress.” —Albert Einstein

“A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” —Robert Browning

“Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.” —Robert Orben

“Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.” —Jon Sinclair

“Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” —Morihei Ueshiba

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” —Ken Robinson

“Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’” —Richard Carlson

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” —Babe Ruth

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” —George Edward Woodberry

“A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” —George M. Moore Jr.

“Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.” —Leigh Mitchell Hodges

“A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” —B.F. Skinner

“Failure is the only opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” —Henry Ford

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” —Thomas Edison

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.” —Japanese Proverb

“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.” —Oprah Winfrey

“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” —Albert Einstein

“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” —Voltaire

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” —Truman Capote

“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” —Benjamin Franklin

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” —Harper Lee

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” —Maya Angelou

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” —Oprah Winfrey

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —John D. Rockefeller

“Ignorance is always afraid of change.” —Jawaharlal Nehru

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” —Confucius

“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.” —James Russell Lowell

“What’s dangerous is not to evolve.” —Jeff Bezos

“You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.” —Timothy Leary

“Change your opinions, keep to your principles. Change your leaves, keep your roots intact.” —Victor Hugo

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird — it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” —C. S. Lewis

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” —Ellen Glasgow

“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.” —Frank Herbert

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing [themself].” —Leo Tolstoy

“The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.” —Rupert Murdoch

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” —Maya Angelou

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” —John F. Kennedy

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” —Babe Ruth

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” —Helen Keller

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” —Anne Frank

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.“ —Pablo Picasso

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

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” —Lyndon Johnson

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” —Henry David Thoreau

“One day or day one. You decide.” —Paulo Coelho

“The student has goals. The master has systems to reach her goals.” —Maxime Legace

“A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot.” –-Joe Vitale

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” –-Henry Ford

“The great danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” –-Michelangelo

“The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact… those people have goals.” —Seth Godin

“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.” —Benjamin E. Mays

“Goals should never be easy. They should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” —Michael Phelps

“A goal properly set is halfway reached.” —Zig Ziglar

“Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.” —Jim Rohn

“All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do. ” —Norman Vincent Peale

“By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands—your own.” —Mark Victor Hansen

“You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.” —Steve Garvey

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” —Earl Nightingale

“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.” —Orison Swett Marden

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.” —Michelle Obama

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

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” —Vince Lombardi

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” —Dalai Lama

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.“ —Confucius

“I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.” —Venus Williams

“A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence.” —Jim Watkins

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” —Napoleon Hill

“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” —Thomas Fowell Buxton

“The best way out is always through.” —Robert Frost

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” —Nelson Mandela

“We will either find a way or make one.” —Hannibal

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” —William Feather

“Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” —Benjamin Disraeli

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” —Julie Andrews

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” —Newt Gingrich

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” —Confucius

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” —Albert Einstein

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” —Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé)

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.“ —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” —Michael Jordan

“Never allow a person to tell you no, who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” —Ella Fitzgerald

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” —Steve Jobs

“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.” — Warren Buffett

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.” —Seth Godin

“Never confuse movement with action.” — Ernest Hemingway

“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” — Vince Lombardi

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” — Florence Nightingale

“What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” — Don Zimmer

“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” — Brian Tracy

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” — Leonardo Da Vinci

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” — Jack Canfield

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” — Thomas J. Watson

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” — Tony Robbins

“You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you.” — Tony Morgan

“Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.” — Dwayne Johnson

“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

Think of many things, do one.” — Portuguese Proverb

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker

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

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” — Dale Carnegie

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

“A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence.” — Jim Watkins

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

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers

“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” — Thomas Fowell Buxton

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” — Albert Einstein

“Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” — Napoleon Hill

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” — John C. Maxwell

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” — Meister Eckhart

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” — Eva Young

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

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.” — Zig Ziglar

“Make each day your masterpiece.” — John Wooden

“How wonderful is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.“ — Anne Frank

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” — Lao Tzu

“You are not your resume, you are your work.” — Seth Godin

“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.” — Banksy

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

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

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” — Pelé

“Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.” — Patrick Suskind

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” — Jim Rohn

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

“Failure defeats losers, but it inspires winners.” — Robert Kiyosaki

“The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.” — Richard Bach

“Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities.” — Sophia Amoruso

“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” — John F. Kennedy

“You can do anything, but not everything. Prioritize better.” —David Allen

“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” — Saint Francis

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

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

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

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison

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

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” — Emile Zola

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” — Nelson Henderson

“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

“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

“Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.” — Anne Sweeney

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

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” — Henry David Thoraeu

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand

“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” — Mario Andretti

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” — Warren Buffett

“Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.” — Yoda

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way.” — Robert Kiyosaki

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

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Light tomorrow with today.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“We will either find a way or make one.” — Hannibal

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” — Jim Rohn

“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” — Amelia Earhart

“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

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

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” — Julie Andrews

“You always have two choices — your commitment versus your fear.” — Sammy Davis Jr.

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” — Ayn Rand

“The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” — Albert Einstein

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” — William Feather

“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” — William Patten

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

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” — Woody Allen

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” — Dale Carnegie

“Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.” — Tyler Perry

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

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” — Henry Ford

“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” — Michael Jordan

“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” — Dalai Lama

“Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.” — Unknown

“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

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” — Gary Ryan Blair

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.” — Marissa Mayer

“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.” — Vince Lombardi

“Success in never final; failure is never fatal.” — Conrad Hilton

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

“Someday is not a day of the week.” — Janet Dailey

“Never allow a person to tell you ‘no’ who doesn’t have the power to say ‘yes.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein

“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.” — Vincent Van Gogh

“We fear the future because we are wasting today.” — Mother Teresa

“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.” — Helen Keller

“No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” — Martin Luther King Jr.