31 motivational quotes for work

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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.” —Steve Jobs

“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

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”  —Abraham Lincoln

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

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

“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

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

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

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville

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

“It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power.” —Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

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

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

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” —Joseph Campbell

“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

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

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

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