Sometimes, employees just need a little extra motivation.
That’s why we’ve compiled this massive list of motivational work quotes for Monday mornings.
With a little luck, your team will find these quotes inspiring enough to jump right into the work week with enthusiasm. Send the quotes off in a quick little email or read a few off during your morning staff meeting.
Help your employees fight off a “case of the Mondays” with a pep talk in the form of a quote.
Here are 143 motivational quotes to get your team feeling inspired:
- “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams
- “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill - “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
- “Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” — Farrah Gray
- “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” — Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé)
- “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.”
— Tricia Cunningham - “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” — Thomas Carlyle
- “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”— Elbert Hubbard
- “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”— George Lorimer
- “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” — Earl Nightingale
- “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill
- “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” — Maya Angelou
- “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” —Truman Capote
- “Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” — Voltaire
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
—Thomas Edison - “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.” — Michelle Obama
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
- “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers
- “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” — Dr. Henry Link
- “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” — Unknown
- “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs
- “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” — Hasidic Proverb
- “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein
- "Opportunities don't happen. You create them." — Chris Grosser
- "Your past does not equal your future." — Tony Robbins
- "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." — Herman Melville
- "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." — Colin R. Davis
- “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.” — Steve Jobs
- "It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public." — Tony Robbins
- "Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better." — Jim Rohn
- "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." — G. K. Chesterton
- "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." — Ray Gofort
- "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." — Albert Einstein
- "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do." — Anonymous
- "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." — Walt Disney
- "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere." — Barack Obama
- "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." — Michael John Bobak
- "Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning." — Robert Kiyosaki
- "Do one thing every day that scares you." — Anonymous
- "If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."— Tony Robbins
- “I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan
- "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." — Albert Schweitzer
- "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." — Vidal Sassoon
- "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." — Nikos Kazantzakis
- "Some people dream of success while others wake up and work."— Unknown
- “It's about the journey — mine and yours — and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.”— Tony Dungy
- "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." — Bruce Lee
- “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.” — Michael Jordan
- “Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.” — Ellen Degeneres
- “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?” — Ayn Rand
- “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” — Judy Garland
- “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
- "Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same." — Carlos Castaned
- "Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from." — Seth Godin
- "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose." — Dr. Seuss
- "Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- "Do or do not. There is no try." — Yoda
- "When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen." — Harley Davidson
- "There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." — Denis Waitley
- "A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." — Mahatma Gandhi
- "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." — Thomas Jefferson
- "If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours." — Ray Kroc
- "You are not your resume, you are your work." — Seth Godin
- "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." — Charles Darwin
- “Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” — Michael Scott, The Office
- “If we can challenge convention, we can solve any problem.” — Josh Valman
- “If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe.” —Abraham Lincoln
- “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” — Seneca
- “If you did the work you’re avoiding, you’d have the results you want.” — Mel Robbins
- "When you change your thoughts, you change your world." —Norman Vincent Peale
- "The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat." — Lily Tomlin
- “Keep your face to the sun and you cannot see the shadows.”— Helen Keller
- “First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.” — Marie Curie
- “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse
- “Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” — Amelia Earhart
- "Well done, is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
- “Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me.” — Sheryl Sandberg
- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
— Alice Walker - “Think of many things, do one.”— Portuguese proverb
- “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” — John C. Maxwell
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe
- “You can have results or excuses. Not both.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “Someday is not a day of the week.” — Janet Dailey
- “If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.”
— Anita Roddick - “Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life.” — Cheryl Strayed
- “Always deliver more than expected.” — Larry Page
- “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” — Les Brown
- “You have the power in your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe - “Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” — Lou Holtz
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb
- “Light tomorrow with today.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Make each day your masterpiece.” — John Wooden
- “You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you.”
—Tony Morgan - “Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.” — Corita Kent
- “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”
— Jean-Luc Picard - “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.”
— Ann Landers - “Forget the past and live in the present hour.” — Sarah Knowles Bolton
- “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
- “There’s no abiding success without commitment.” — Tony Robbins
- “Don’t justify your dreams, execute on them.” — Gary Vaynerchuk
- “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese proverb
- “It’s our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” — J. K. Rowling
- “The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing.”
— Barry Werner - “Work harder on you than everyone else and you will become unusually successful.”
— Dani Johnson - “You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.” — José Mourinho
- “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
— Will Rogers - “Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.” — Robert Hall
- “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.” — Louis Pasteur
- “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” — Salvador Dali
- “I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.” — Og Mandino
- “Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.” — Helena Rubinstein
- “You were hired because you met expectations, you will be promoted if you can exceed them.” — Saji Ijiyemi
- “It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.” — Lou Holtz
- “Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.” – Alan Turing
- “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” — Zig Zigler
- “If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.” — Buddha
- “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” — Henry Ford
- “The secret of getting ahead, is getting started.” — Mark Twain
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
- “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” — Jimmy Johnson
- “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I’m possible!” — Audrey Hepburn
- "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.” —Thomas Jefferson
- “Genius is born—not paid.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” — Ralph Marston
- “It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.” — Rebecca Wells
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” — Babe Ruth
- “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” — Zig Ziglar
- “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” — Dr. Robert Schuller
- “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” — Charles Dickens
- “Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.” — Patrick Suskind
- “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
— Thomas Jefferson - “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” — Mark Twain
- “Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.” — Luther Campbell
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “Becoming is better than being.” — Carol Dweck
- “You can worry about the competition…or you can focus on what’s ahead of you and drive fast.” — Jack Dorsey
- “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” — Helen Hayes
- “It’s your job to become the person you’re meant to be.” — Mel Robbins
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