Daily Work Quotes to Inspire Motivation & Success

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The future depends on what you do today.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Dream big. Start small. Act now.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Done is better than perfect.

Small daily improvements lead to stunning results.

You can’t manage time, but you can manage attention.

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Energy flows where attention goes.

Do it with full dedication or not at all.

Clarity precedes success.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Teamwork makes the dream work.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team.

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Unity is strength.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Your career is a journey, not a destination.

Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Growth begins when you accept challenges outside your comfort zone.

Don’t wait for opportunities. Create them.

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.

Be passionate, be courageous, be disciplined, and be patient.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Learn as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die tomorrow.

Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

Your attitude determines your direction.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Hard times don’t create heroes. It is pressure that does that.

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, but a lack of will.

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

Resilience is knowing you can endure anything life throws at you.

Lost time is never found again.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

Focus on the few and important things.

One hour’s worth of effort each day can take you places that a year’s worth of wishing never will.

Don’t count the days, make the days count.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Multitasking is a myth. Focus is power.

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.

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

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

The creative adult is the child who survived.

Think different.

To innovate, you must first question everything.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Creativity takes courage.

The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Purpose is the reason we strive, not the cause we serve.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.

Purpose is the key to unlocking lasting fulfillment.

When you know your why, you can endure any how.

Living without purpose is like sailing without a compass.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life. Don’t settle.

Let passion drive your purpose, and purpose guide your decisions.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Purpose gives you wings when your feet are tired.