Top 200 Inspirational Quotes for Work (2024 Update)
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51. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.”

— Gary Player

52. “Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.”

— Abdul Kalam

53. “In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect and inspires, encouraging others to do their best.”

— Zig Ziglar

54. “Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.”

— W. Clement Stone

55. “A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.”

— Zig Ziglar

56. “If the big rocks don’t go in first, they aren’t going to fit in later.”

— Stephen R. Covey

57. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”

— Lionel Messi

58. “The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you’re capable of being. Never stop learning.”

— John C. Maxwell

59. “Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.”

— Jim Rohn

60. “Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.”

— Myles Munroe

61. “Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.”

— John C. Maxwell

62. “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

— John C. Maxwell

63. “Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.”

— Colin Powell

64. “If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

— Colin Powell

65. “When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.”

— Simon Sinek

66. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

— Andrew Carnegie

67. “Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.”

— Napoleon Hill

68. “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.”

— Zig Ziglar

69. “Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.”

— Robin S. Sharma

70. “Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.”

— Robin S. Sharma

71. “And it’s those who start with why, that have the ability to inspire those around them or find others who inspire them.”

— Simon Sinek

72. “People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

73. “The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.”

— Chris Gardner

74. “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

— Vince Lombardi

75. “Work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

76. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

— Steve Jobs

77. “A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. ”

— John C. Maxwell

78. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

— Bill Gates

79. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

— John C. Maxwell

80. “Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.”

— Bear Grylls

81. “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

82. “Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.”

— Simon Sinek

83. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

— John D. Rockefeller

84. “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

— Reid Hoffman

85. “An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.”

— Tim Ferriss

86. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

— Bill Gates

87. “No great achievement is possible without persistent work.”

— Bertrand Russell

88. “If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.”

— William H. McRaven

89. “Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.”

— Mark Cuban

90. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

— Plato

91. “Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.”

— Sara Blakely

92. “A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better.”

— Richard Branson

93. “Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.”

— Jim Rohn

94. “The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.”

— Adam Grant

95. “When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.”

— Zig Ziglar

96. “I’m working full time on my job and part time on my fortune.”

— Jim Rohn

97. “A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better.”

— Richard Branson

98. “If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.”

— Jeff Bezos

99. “Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.”

— Jeanette Winterson

100. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

— Jim Rohn