Top 200 Motivational Work Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

— Les Brown

102. “Repetition is the mother of skill.”

— Tony Robbins

103. “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

— Stephen R. Covey

104. “In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

— Warren Buffett

105. “Spend each day getting a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day – if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.”

— Charlie Munger

106. “Join The 5 am Club. Your most valuable hours are 5am-8am. They have the least interruptions.”

— Robin S. Sharma

107. “If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.”

— Tim Ferriss

108. “Hustle is the most important word – EVER.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

109. “Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

110. “Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.”

— Robin S. Sharma

111. “Attitude drives actions. Actions drive results. Results drive lifestyles.”

— Jim Rohn

112. “Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.”

— Denzel Washington

113. “Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn’t expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.”

— John Wooden

114. “Knowledge is NOT power. Knowledge is only POTENTIAL power. Action is power.”

— Tony Robbins

115. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

— Steve Martin

116. “Fall in love with the process, and the results will come.”

— Eric Thomas

117. “A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.”

— Walt Disney

118. “Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.”

— Brian Tracy

119. “A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”

— Robin S. Sharma

120. “Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”

— Michael Jordan

121. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

— Benjamin Franklin

122. “Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!”

— Brian Tracy

123. “The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.”

— Dwayne Johnson

124. “Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.”

— Will Smith

125. “It's never crowded along the extra mile.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

126. “Collaboration is multiplication.”

— John C. Maxwell

127. “It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”

— Brian Tracy

128. “The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”

— Napoleon Hill

129. “People of excellence go the extra mile to do what’s right.”

— Joel Osteen

130. “The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

131. “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”

— Bruce Lee

132. “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

133. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

— Mother Teresa

134. “Do what makes you happy. Keep it simple. Do the research. Work hard. Look ahead.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

135. “If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.”

— Tony Robbins

136. “If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn’t have an opportunity.”

— Bob Parsons

137. “Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of life’s greatest pleasures.”

— Richard Branson

138. “Listen to me, even when you lose, it’s OK to lose, but you can never get comfortable with it. You can never be satisfied with losing. When you lose, it’s got to hurt.”

— Eric Thomas

139. “To get to that next level, you gotta learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable.”

— Eric Thomas

140. “If you don’t back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn’t mean a thing.”

— Michael Jordan

141. “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

— Tony Robbins

142. “Without your involvement you can’t succeed. With your involvement you can’t fail.”

— Abdul Kalam

143. “Wanting to win isn’t enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.”

— John C. Maxwell

144. “Whatever happens, take responsibility.”

— Tony Robbins

145. “Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. Fear kills dreams and hope.”

— Les Brown

146. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

— William Arthur Ward

147. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

— Napoleon Hill

148. “Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.”

— Arianna Huffington

149. “You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve.”

— Michael Jordan

150. “Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life.”

— Greg Plitt