Top 100 Engagement Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When you were made a leader you weren’t given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.”

— Jack Welch

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Business Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

2. “The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow – the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Experience Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes

3. “Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them. We know if we treat our employees right, they’ll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they’ll come back.”

— J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Service Quotes, Quotes About Work, Small Business Quotes

4. “One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it can change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Influence Quotes, Epic Quotes

5. “Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Also featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Silence Quotes

6. “There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Caring Quotes, Tuesday Inspirational Quotes

7. “I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.”

— Lily Tomlin

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Witty Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

8. “Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.”

— Daniel H. Pink

9. “The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Quotes About People, Short Deep Quotes, New Relationship Quotes

10. “Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don’t work for you, you work for them.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Service Quotes, Friday Quotes for Work

11. “Leadership is not a title. It’s a behavior. LIVE it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Smart Quotes, Different Quotes

12. “Respond; don’t react. Listen; don’t talk. Think; don’t assume.”

— Raji Lukkoor

Also featured in: Quotes for Better Decisions

13. “Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.”

— Ian Hutchinson

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work

14. “Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.”

— Leo Burnett

Also featured in: Marketing Quotes, Simplicity Quotes, Fun Quotes

15. “Don’t use social media to impress people; use it to impact people.”

— Dave Willis

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Intention Quotes, Influence Quotes, Social Media Quotes

16. “When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee’s skill, he doesn’t just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.”

— Shawn Achor

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Friday Quotes for Work, Career Development Quotes, Employee Appreciation Quotes

17. “Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.”

— Seth Godin

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Impact Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Marketing Quotes

18. “You need to feel that you’re making a difference.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Impact Quotes, Positive Quotes for Women

19. “When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.”

— Simon Sinek

20. “Keep saying hello to people. They will be the differentiator for you for the rest of your life.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: New Relationship Quotes

21. “If you’re not putting out relevant content in relevant places, you don’t exist.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Marketing Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes

22. “It’s not how many followers you have, it’s how many care. It’s not width, it’s depth. It’s not how many impressions you get, it’s how much attention you get.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Influence Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes

23. “Together we are better.”

— John Paul Warren

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Happy Sunday Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Volunteer Quotes

24. “Help People Reach Their Full Potential Catch Them Doing Something Right.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work, I Appreciate You Quotes, Employee Appreciation Quotes

25. “Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

— John Dewey

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Teaching Quotes

26. “Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Influence Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Government Quotes

27. “Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Flow Quotes

28. “If you do not care about your end user immensely, especially in the next few years, your brand will die.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: Marketing Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes, Social Media Quotes

29. “Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.”

— Jon Gordon

Also featured in: Monday Morning Quotes, Influence Quotes, Graduation Quotes

30. “You will know your path by the fun of it.”

— Esther Hicks

Also featured in: Cheer Quotes, Silly Quotes, Path Quotes

31. “The three things that motivate creative people – autonomy, mastery, purpose!”

— Daniel H. Pink

Also featured in: Professional Growth Quotes, Mastery Quotes

32. “Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Existentialism Quotes, Conscience Quotes

33. “The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Empathy Quotes, Care Quotes, Friday Quotes for Work

34. “Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”

— Alice Walker

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Impact Quotes, Resistance Quotes, Rights Quotes

35. “When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Commitment Quotes

36. “Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Also featured in: Sadness Quotes

37. “We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Make A Difference Quotes

38. “You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Flow Quotes

39. “Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.”

— Bruce D. Perry

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Make A Difference Quotes, Collaboration Quotes, New Relationship Quotes

40. “Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Influence Quotes

41. “Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.”

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Collaboration Quotes

42. “Always let your employees come to work with a smile.”

— Jack Ma

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work, Monday Morning Quotes, Boss Quotes

43. “Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.”

— Stephen R. Covey

44. “If you take care of your workers they’ll take care of your business.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work, Boss Quotes

45. “We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”

— Howard Zinn

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes

46. “A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes

47. “The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.”

— Shawn Achor

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes

48. “Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Humanism Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

49. “In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people. They no longer can lead solely based on positional power.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

Also featured in: Past Quotes, Boss Quotes

50. “Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

Also featured in: New Beginnings Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Momentum Quotes, Quotes About Acting