100+ Thursday Motivational Work Quotes to Inspire Success

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." – Wayne Gretzky

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt

"It always seems impossible until it’s done." – Nelson Mandela

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson

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

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right." – Henry Ford

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." – Peter Drucker

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe

"Sometimes the people closest to you are the ones who hurt you the most." – Unknown

"Not everyone will like you, and that’s okay." – Mandy Hale

"Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives." – Akshay Dubey

"You can be broken down by life and still be whole inside." – R.H. Sin

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." – Haruki Murakami

"People change, and so do circumstances. Accept it." – Unknown

"The truth hurts only because it shatters the illusion you were comfortable with." – Zahra Mandviwala

"You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first." – Unknown

"Just because I’m quiet doesn’t mean I don’t feel deeply." – Unknown

"Some days you're the hammer, some days you're the nail." – Unknown

"Grief is just love with nowhere to go." – Jamie Anderson

"You can't fix everything, and that's okay." – Unknown

"Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction." – Unknown

"The grind never stops, and neither should you." – Unknown

"Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people." – Unknown

"Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently." – Marie Forleo

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself." – Jordan Belfort

"No pressure, no diamonds." – Thomas Carlyle

"If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission." – Unknown

"Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most." – Abraham Lincoln

"Work until your idols become your rivals." – Unknown

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Action is the foundational key to all success." – Pablo Picasso

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for." – Unknown

"I’m not lazy, I’m just energy efficient." – Unknown

"I told my dog all my problems and he fell asleep halfway through." – Unknown

"Adulting is just saying ‘I’ll do it later’ until you die." – Unknown

"I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right." – Unknown

"My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do." – Unknown

"I’m not short, I’m concentrated awesome." – Unknown

"I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination." – Unknown

"I followed my heart, and it led me to the fridge." – Unknown

"I’m not weird, I’m limited edition." – Unknown

"I’m not late. Everyone else is just early." – Unknown

"I’m not clumsy. The floor just hates me." – Unknown

"I’m not ignoring you. I’m just prioritizing my peace." – Unknown

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle

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

"The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude." – Viktor Frankl

"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself." – Jean-Paul Sartre

"Life is not measured in years, but in the moments that take your breath away." – George Carlin

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." – Socrates

"Existence precedes essence." – Jean-Paul Sartre

"We are the authors of our own suffering." – Buddha

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." – Marie Curie

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." – John Milton

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering." – Friedrich Nietzsche

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." – Aristotle

"I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you." – Roy Croft

"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." – Maya Angelou

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever." – Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Love makes a silent room echo with laughter." – Unknown

"You are my today and all of my tomorrows." – Leo Christopher

"I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more." – Angelita Lim

"Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day." – Unknown

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." – Lao Tzu

"Where there is love, there is life." – Mahatma Gandhi

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott

"You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not." – Jodi Picoult

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." – Buddha

"Self-care is how you take your power back." – Lalah Delia

"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do." – Brené Brown

"You are enough just as you are." – Meghan Markle

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love." – Brené Brown

"Self-love isn’t selfish; it’s necessary." – Unknown

"Fall in love with taking care of yourself." – Unknown

"You were born to stand out, not to fit in." – Taylor Swift

"Stop diminishing your worth to make others comfortable." – Unknown

"You don’t need anyone’s approval to be yourself." – Unknown

"Be gentle with yourself. You’re doing the best you can." – Unknown

"You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved." – Glennon Doyle

"Out of difficulties grow miracles." – Jean de La Bruyère

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." – J.K. Rowling

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi

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

"Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey

"Scars are tattoos with better stories." – Unknown

"Survival is important. Thriving is elegant." – Nikki Giovanni

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." – Maya Angelou

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." – C.C. Scott

"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in." – Haruki Murakami

"Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." – Napoleon Hill

"Know thyself." – Inscription at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." – Aristotle

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory." – Pierre Corneille

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." – Lao Tzu

"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own." – Lao Tzu

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts." – Buddha

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." – Lao Tzu

"An unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." – Heraclitus

"Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant." – Seneca

"The only constant in life is change." – Heraclitus

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." – Seneca

"Be the energy you want to attract." – Unknown

"Less perfection, more authenticity." – Unknown

"Stay foolish. Stay hungry." – Steve Jobs

"Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil your present." – Unknown

"Breathe. It’s just a bad day, not a bad life." – Unknown

"Progress over perfection." – Unknown

"Create the life you can’t wait to wake up to." – Unknown

"She believed she could, so she did." – R.S. Grey

"You are the sky. Everything else is just weather." – Pema Chödrön

"Don’t shrink. Don’t apologize. Don’t hide." – Unknown

"Let your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." – Nelson Mandela

"This too shall pass." – Persian Adage