Top 200 Motivational Quotes for Work (2025 Update)
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151. “Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.”

— Confucius

152. “Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.”

— Elon Musk

153. “Quality is everyone’s responsibility.”

— W. Edwards Deming

154. “When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

— Jim Rohn

156. “There are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.”

— Thomas A. Edison

157. “Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.”

— John Doerr

158. “Collaboration is multiplication.”

— John C. Maxwell

159. “Motivation is motive in action.”

— Denis Waitley

160. “My definition of success? The more you’re actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will be.”

— Richard Branson

161. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

162. “Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.”

— John C. Maxwell

163. “Never lower your price, add value.”

— Grant Cardone

164. “There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”

— Brian Tracy

165. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

— Brian Tracy

166. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

— Rosalynn Carter

167. “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me?”

— Brian Tracy

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

— John C. Maxwell

169. “I never want money that I didn’t earn.”

— Casey Neistat

170. “Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”

— John C. Maxwell

171. “Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.”

— Og Mandino

172. “Stay focused on the mission.”

— Naveen Jain

173. “If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value.”

— Myles Munroe

174. “The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.”

— Brian Tracy

175. “People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.”

— Warren Buffett

176. “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”

— Sam Ewing

177. “Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.”

— Simon Sinek

178. “Nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week.”

— Elon Musk

179. “Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

— Zig Ziglar

180. “Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.”

— Lawrence Bossidy

181. “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

182. “A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.”

— Mary Kay Ash

183. “Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision.”

— Myles Munroe

184. “You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.”

— Henry Ford

185. “Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.”

— Brian Tracy

186. “Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.”

— Jack Ma

187. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Richard Branson

189. “Don’t show up to prove. Show up to improve.”

— Simon Sinek

190. “Doing your best is more important than being the best.”

— Shannon Miller

191. “Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one’s financial success is due one’s technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.”

— Dale Carnegie

192. “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.”

— Thomas A. Edison

193. “The book you don't read can't help.”

— Jim Rohn

194. “Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.”

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

195. “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

196. “When there’s change, there’s opportunity.”

— Jack Welch

197. “Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.”

— Telle Whitney

198. “You can’t sell anything if you can’t tell anything.”

— Beth Comstock

199. “Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.”

— Jim Rohn

200. “In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.”

— Warren G. Bennis