Top 200 Motivational Work Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.”

— Simon Sinek

52. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”

— Jim Rohn

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

— John C. Maxwell

54. “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

— Bill Gates

55. “Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be proud, but not arrogant.”

— Zig Ziglar

56. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

— Steve Jobs

57. “If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”

— Zig Ziglar

58. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

— Henry Ford

59. “The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.”

— Jim Rohn

60. “There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles.”

— Stephen R. Covey

61. “To be interesting, be interested.”

— Dale Carnegie

62. “Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.”

— John C. Maxwell

63. “When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.”

— Zig Ziglar

64. “Be the leader you wish you had.”

— Simon Sinek

65. “What gets measured gets improved.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Stephen King

67. “Play the picture in your mind – focus on the end result.”

— Rhonda Byrne

68. “You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine.”

— Les Brown

69. “You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.”

— Jim Rohn

70. “Don’t worry about what you can’t control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus- these are the things we can control...”

— Tim Tebow

71. “Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results.”

— Robin S. Sharma

72. “The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”

— Zig Ziglar

73. “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”

— Vernon Howard

74. “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”

— Paulo Coelho

75. “Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it does!”

— Les Brown

76. “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”

— Thomas J. Watson

77. “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

78. “Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.”

— Zig Ziglar

79. “Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.”

— Napoleon Hill

80. “Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.”

— Brian Tracy

81. “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ”

— Jim Rohn

82. “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

— Vince Lombardi

83. “Time is money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

84. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”

— Winston Churchill

85. “Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”

— John Wooden

86. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

87. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

— Steve Jobs

88. “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”

— Charles F. Kettering

89. “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. ”

— Vince Lombardi

90. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.”

— Calvin Coolidge

91. “There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.”

— Zig Ziglar

92. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

— Jimmy Dean

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. “Your life only gets better when you get better.”

— Brian Tracy

95. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”

— Napoleon Hill

96. “Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”

— Tony Robbins

97. “You can’t sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

98. “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

99. “It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”

— Tony Robbins

100. “Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”

— Robin S. Sharma