130 Motivational Quotes for Work To Inspire Office Success

““Happiness is a direction, not a place.” — Sydney J. Harris”

““Change is inevitable. Change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that’s when it’s progress.” — Doug Baldwin”

““If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” — Lao Tzu”

““We must travel in the direction of our fear.” — John Berryman”

““Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.” — Al Bernstein”

““You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing the small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.” — Alvin Toffler”

““The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they’re mutually reinforcing.” — Michael Porter”

““If everybody is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.” — Sam Walton”

““Failure doesn’t exist. It’s only a change of direction.” — Alejandro Jodorowsky”

““Start your day in an upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.” — Vernon Howard”

““You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” — Jim Rohn”

““The Titanic did not hit the iceberg because they did not see it coming but because they could not change direction.” — Dean Devlin”

““We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you’ve got to be around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.” — Henry Cloud”

““The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes”

““What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?” — Jack Kerouac”

““You can’t save a season with one game, but it can definitely get you going in the right direction.” — Ravi Moss”

““Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have 24-hour days.” — Zig Ziglar”

““Study the past if you would define the future.” — Confucius”

““Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.” — Payal Kadakia”

““The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand”

““Direction is so much more important than speed. Many are going nowhere fast.” — Unknown”

““If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” — Lewis Carroll”

““The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” — Arthur C. Clarke”

““Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn”

““Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson”

““No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt”

““Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden”

““We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” — Marie Curie”

““If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent van Gogh”

““Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” — Paul Tournier”

““Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” — Benjamin Spock”

““Accept who you are, and revel in it.” — Mitch Albom”

““Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” — Helen Keller”

““As is our confidence, so is our capacity.” — William Hazlitt”

““Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.” — George Herbert”

““Experience tells you what to do. Confidence allows you to do it.” — Stan Smith”

““With confidence, you have won before you started.” — Marcus Garvey”

““It’s best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.” — Lillian Hellman”

““You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.” — Zig Ziglar”

““Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too.” — David Storey”

““Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage and confidence in the doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt”

““You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” — Michael Jordan”

““Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” — Samuel Johnson”

““You, yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserves your love and affection.” — Buddha”

““To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson”

““Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt”

““The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.” — William Jennings Bryan”

““Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller”

““Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” — Peter T. McIntyre”

““Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” — E.E. Cummings”

““A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” — Colin Powell”

““The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon”

““I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” — Frank Lloyd Wright”

““Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work.” — Stephen King”

““Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” — Ray Kroc”

““Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” — John F. Kennedy”

““A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.” — Ralph Lauren”

““For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.” — Jessica Savitch”

““I learned the value of hard work by working hard.” — Margaret Mead”

““Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” — Malcolm Forbes”

““Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.” — Tim Notke”

““Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” — Dale Carnegie”

““Without labor, nothing prospers.” — Sophocles”

““The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.” — Alexander Graham Bell”

““Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” — Dwayne Johnson”

““Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” — Booker T. Washington”

““You can achieve anything you put your mind and hard work to.” — Sara Sampaio”

““When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that’s a really good feeling.” — Derek Jeter”

““Hard work always wins in the end.” — Lucas Till”

““Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.” — Lucille Ball”

““There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell”

““The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.” — Marvin Phillips”

““Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” — Ann Landers”

““I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson”

““The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs”

““Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” — Aisha Tyler”

““Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” — Bill Bradley”

““Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” — Gever Tulley”

““Energy and persistence conquer all things.” — Benjamin Franklin”

““The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost”

““You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.” — Tom Hiddleston”

““Keep a little fire burning, however small, however hidden.” — Cormac McCarthy”

““Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” — James A. Michener”

““Talent is nothing without persistence.” — Dean Crawford”

““Wake up, start walking and stop not till the world is lifted.” — Abhijit Naskar”

““Paralyze resistance with persistence.” — Woody Hayes”

““The big talent is persistence.” — Octavia E. Butler”

““Life is full of challenges, but I always have the three Ps: passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza.” — Butch Hartman”

““It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein”

““We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle”

““Money grows on the tree of persistence.” — Japanese proverb”

““Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality, the other a matter of time.” — Marabel Morgan”

““Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” — Pablo Picasso”

““Many of life’s failures are people who did not know how close they were when they gave up.” — Thomas Edison”

““We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” — Tobias Wolff”

““Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill”

““Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese proverb”

““I will persist until I succeed.” — Og Mandino”

““Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas Edison”

““Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” — Walter Elliot”

““The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” — Moliere”

““Life keeps throwing me stones, and I keep finding the diamonds.” — Ana Claudia Antunes”

““Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of true men.” — Martha Graham”

““You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.” — Golda Meir”

““Hang onto your hat, hang onto your hope and wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” — E. B. White”

““There is no education like adversity.” — Benjamin Disraeli”

““Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey”

““The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” — Chinese proverb”

““Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly, you’re doing the impossible.” — Francis of Assisi”

““I don’t run away from a challenge because I’m afraid. I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot.” — Nadia Comaneci”

““A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.” — Ray Davis”

““A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.” — E. A. Bucchianeri”

““If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” — Seth Godin”

““We acquire the strength we have overcome.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson”

““The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway”

““If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” — Milton Berle”

““Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.” — William Arthur Ward”

““Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”

““Adversity is the first path to truth.” — Lord Byron”

““Adversity is preparation for greatness.” — Andy Andrews”

““Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” — Napoleon Hill”

““The brick walls are there for a reason. They’re not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” — Randy Pausch”

““When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford”

““Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” — Seneca”

““The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” — John Green”

““What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson”

““Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” — J.K. Rowling”

““The comeback is always stronger than the setback.” — Unknown”

““In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein”

““Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” — Mary Anne Radmacher”