Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. — Benjamin Franklin
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. — Lee Iacocca
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition. — Frederick Herzberg
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves. — Herman Cain
Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements. — Frederick Herzberg
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder. — Nikita Khrushchev
Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. — Zig Ziglar
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. — Stephen Covey
motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot. — Jim Rohn
The most effective form of motivation is progress. — James Clear
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday. — Noel Coward
Top 10 Motivational Work Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart. — Miyamoto Musashi
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — Alexander Hamilton
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. — William Arthur Ward
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein
Motivational Work Image Quotes
Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle! — Sanya Richards-Ross
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. — Steve Jobs
Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.
Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work. — Jean Beliveau
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand — Vince Lombardi
I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened. — Will Rogers
Stay positive, work had and make it happen.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. — Babe Ruth
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.
Positive Motivational Work Quotes
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. — Tim Ferriss
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. — Leonardo da Vinci
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. — Bruce Lee
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. — Sheryl Sandberg
When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. — Armand Hammer
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. — Jim Stovall
Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express not to impress.
There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there's virtually no competition. — Steve Ross
Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity. — Walter Dill Scott
I want to be in a position where when we work with people, we’re a little more generous than we have particular reason to be. — Sam Bankman-Fried
Work Motivation Quotes
We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. — William Arthur Ward
Work hard in silence, let success make the noice.
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. — Vincent Van Gogh
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut — Albert Einstein
Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.
I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it. — Branch Warren
When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder. — Dan Gable
Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal. — Kerri Walsh
Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks. — Elbert Hubbard
Motivation And Hard Work Quotes
If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams. — Jane Goodall
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
People make a big mistake when they say, 'I need to be motivated.' You motivate yourself. I might inspire somebody, but that person has to be motivated within themselves first. Look inside yourself, believe in yourself, put in the hard work, and your dreams will unfold. — Billy Mills
97 percent of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3 percent who never gave up.
...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. — Patrick Süskind
Motivational Business Quotes
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
If something doesn't work change the plan, don't change your goal.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
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
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. — Stephen Curry
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose. — T. D. Jakes
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office of mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself. — Chandra Shekhar Azad
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come — Booker T. Washington
Powerful Motivational Quotes
Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it? — Gordon Bethune
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. — Maya Angelou
The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me. — Sayings
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. — Fulton J. Sheen
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire. — Andrew Carnegie
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. — Robin Sharma
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful. — Benjamin Zander
Positive Motivation Quotes
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." — Layne Beachley
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. — Mae Jemison
Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money. — Christian Finnegan
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. — Jerry Seinfeld
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must. — Duke of Wellington
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. — Jim Rohn
Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow. — Richard Baxter
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. — Alfred Sheinwold
A Gallup study found that when people leave their companies, 65 percent of them are actually leaving their managers. — Michael Abrashoff
If you want to be strong, exercise; if you want to be wise, study; if you want to be happy, smile; and if you want to be invincible, love. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches. — Swami Vivekananda
Not only are squats not bad for the knees, every legitimate research study on this subject has shown that squats improve knee stability and therefore help reduce the risk of injuries. — Charles Poliquin
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy. — Norman Vincent Peale
Motivational Coaching Quotes
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time. — Abraham Lincoln
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer. — Dabo Swinney
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise — Michael Jordan
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
Personal Motivation Quotes
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be. — Greg Plitt
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry. — Hosea Ballou
There are people who make things happen, there are people who
watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
things happen. — Jim Lovell
Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter. — Michael Oher
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner
You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face. — Herman Edwards
You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working. — Emmet Fox
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain — Jack Kerouac
Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion. — Simon Sinek
If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting. — David Bowie
Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind. — Zig Ziglar
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise. — Frank Ocean
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable. — Roger Bannister
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you? — Aaron Swartz
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. — Napoleon Hill
I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. — Kobe Bryant
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