Going to work can be mundane at times. Some positive and motivational words can surely help you push through the week with high energy and motivation. We have rounded up some positive one-liners for your morning dose.
Maybe it’s about time you inspired your co-workers for great teamwork with some motivational quotes to do better at work.
Best quotes of the day for work
- “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
- “Light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
- “Today is the perfect day to start living your dreams.”
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
- “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.”
- “Think of many things; do one.” – Portuguese Proverb
- “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle
- “Impossible is just an opinion.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
- “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” – Seneca
- “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.”
- “Don’t decrease the goal. Increase the effort.”
- “If you get tired learn to rest, not to quit.”
- “A mistake is success in progress.”
- “Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”
- “Actions expresses priorities.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.”
- “A negative mind will never give you a positive life.”
- “True leaders don’t create followers. They create more leaders.”
- “High expectations are the key to everything.” – Sam Walton
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in, and day-out.”
- “You become what you think about.” – Jim Rohn
- “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
- “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves.” – Chanakya
- “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.” – David Allen
- “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
- “If you hit the target every time, it’s too near or too big.” – Tom Hirshfield
- “You will never plow a field if you only turn it over in your mind.” – Irish Proverb
- “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur
- “For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation—the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing—is essential for high levels of creativity.” – Daniel H. Pink, Drive
- “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.” – Haile Gebrselassie
- “Every failure is a lesson. If you are not willing to fail, you are not ready to succeed.”
- “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” – Bertrand Russell
- “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi
- “When they give you lined paper, write the other way.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie
- “The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way.” – Robert Kiyosaki
- “On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to the theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.” – Jean Stapleton
- “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball
- “No human masterpiece has been created without great labor.” – Andre Gide
- “Be like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there.” – Josh Billings
- “Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
- “It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.” – Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- “Ask yourself what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.”
- “Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” – Jim Henson
- “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker
- “If we can challenge convention, we can solve any problem.” – Josh Valman
- “You may get the thing you wish for. But you will surely get the thing you work for.”
- “If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.” – Buddha
- “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland
- “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” – Muhammad Ali
- “Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.” – Joan Collins
- “No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.”
- “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” – Barack Obama
- “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” – Tricia Cunningham
- “Hard work beat talent when talent fails to work hard.” – Kevin Durant
- “Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.” – Felicia Day
- “Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.” – Tyler Perry
- “Two things you are in total control of in life are your attitude and your efforts.”
- “Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” – Brian Tracy
- “A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce
- “Innovation distinguishes from a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
- “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London
- “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
- “You must tell yourself, “No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.” – Les Brown
- “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
- “Fulfillment isn’t found over the rainbow—it’s found in the here and now. Today I define success by the fluidity with which I transcend emotional landmines and choose joy and gratitude instead.” – RuPaul
- “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” – Harry Golden
- “Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery or the deed, is living and can live on.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” – Brian Tracy
- “Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” – Peter Drucker
- “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” – Salvador Dali
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” – Dr. Seuss, Oh the Places You’ll Go
- “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” – Joyce Brothers
- “Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.” – Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
- “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” – Sun Tzu
- “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
- “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
- “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” – Denis Waitley
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addai
- “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
- “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
- “Those who say it can not be done should, not interrupt those doing it.”
- “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan
- “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
- “It is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.” – Spoon Boy, The Matrix
- “Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.”
- “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking
- “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
- “I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.” – Jim Carrey
- “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” – David Allen
- “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
- “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.” – Stanley McChrystal
- “Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” – Joseph Barbara
- “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh, Alice in Wonderland (2010)
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” – Arthur Christopher Benson
- “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
- “This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is a game.” – Alan Wilson Watts
- “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” – Bruce Lee
- “If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”
- “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. Happy Labor Day!”
- “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” – M. Scott Peck
- “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” – John Newton
- “Failure it appears is not the regret that haunts most people; it is the choice not to risk failure at all.” – Dr. John Izzo
- “Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with the immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion, you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.” – Henry L. Doherty
- “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.” – Margaret Fuller
- “So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.” – Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
- “Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally.” – David Frost
- “Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.” – Brian Tracy
- “Today is not just another day. It’s a new opportunity, another chance, a new beginning. Embrace it.”
- “Work on being in love with the person in the mirror who has been through so much but is still standing.”
- “Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” – Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
- “Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.” – Gertrude B. Elion
- “Don’t stop now. Keep grinding and see what happens when you don’t give up.”
- “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” – Michael Jordan
- “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan
- “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” – Kahlil Gibran
Funny quotes of the day for work
- “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” – Olin Miller
- “If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” – John Gotti
- “My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.”
- “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” – Bill Gates
- “The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.” – Stanley J. Randall
- “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” – Oscar Wilde
- “If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. Where X is work. Y is play. Z is keeping your mouth shut.” – Albert Einstein
- “As I have gotten older and wiser I discovered that there are six things that I really loved about my job. Payday, lunchtime, quitting time, vacation time, holidays, and of course retirement.” – Tom Goins
- “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Janet Dailey
- “If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” – Claude McDonald
- “I always give 100% at Work: 10% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 22% Thursday, and 5% Friday.”
- “Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” – Leslie Nielsen
- “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” – Edgar Bergen
- “Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” – Peter Drucker
- “I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” – Jerome K. Jerome
- “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” – Robert Orben
- “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti
Positive quotes of the day for work
- “Have a great day. Full of productivity and good vibes.”
- “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Emile Zola
- “Work like an employee who can even make Mondays joyful.”
- “As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning.” – Margaret Heffernan
- “Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” – Richard Bach
- “Becoming is better than being.” – Carol Dweck, Mindset
- “If you want it. Work for it.”
- “A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.” – Mildred Struven
- “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
- “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” – Hermann Hesse
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
- “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” – Maya Angelou
- “Fight till the last gasp.” – William Shakespeare, Henry VI
- “It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.” – Colin Powell
- “If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach
- “Fall 7 times, stand up 8.” – Japanese Proverb
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” – Peter Marshall
- “If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing.” – Marc Chagall
- “Look at life with the eyes of a child.” – Henri Matisse
- “Accept what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be.”
- “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
- “It’s time to believe in you.”
Inspirational quotes of the day for work
- “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge
- “Genius is born—not paid.” – Oscar Wilde
- “With self-discipline anything is possible.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
- “Remember why you started.”
- “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” – Eva Young
- “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” – Oprah
- “Quality is job one.” – Henry Ford
- “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
- “Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.” – Zig Ziglar
- “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
- “Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.” – Hamilton Holt
- “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell
- “Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” – William Patten
- “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
- “Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” – Gary Ryan Blair
- “Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.” – Patrick Suskind
- “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Saint Francis
- “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.” – Viggo Mortensen
- “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Choose a job that you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
- “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “If you’re alive, you’re a creative person.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
- “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs
- “You will never plow a field if you only turn it over in your mind.” – Irish Proverb
- “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” – Stephen R. Covey
- “Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.” – Denis Waitley
- “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” – Dalai Lama
- “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
Motivational quotes of the day for work
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
- “Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer’s problem.” – Mark Cook, Kodak
- “It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki
- “To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.” – Sister Mary Lauretta
- “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. Keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
- “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he’d had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, “Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.” – Anne Lamott
- “Reach for the higher ground, every day, in every decision. Big and small our choices add up to the life we live. Be someone who encourages and uplifts. Share your story. Trust in what you feel. Follow your heart. Live the dream in you. Then you inspire someone else to live on their higher ground.”
- “Every day is an opportunity for a great opportunity.”
- “Always end the day with a positive thought. No matter how hard things were, tomorrow’s a fresh opportunity to make it better.”
- “Don’t be busy, be productive.”
- “Good things come to those who believe. Better things come to those who are patient, and the best things come to those who don’t give up.”
- “By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” – Robert Frost
- “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is a success.” – Henry Ford
- “If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you – like a fever.” – Sam Walton
- “At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” – Kevin Hart
- “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
- “I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- “When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.” – Karen E. Quinones Miller
- “The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.”
- “The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” – Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
- “Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.” – Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- “No one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do.” – Dorothy Day
- “Mondays are the start of the workweek which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!” – David Dweck
- “Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect.”
- “Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.” – Donovan Bailey
- “The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.” – Richard Bach
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “Plan your work today and every day, then work your plan.” – Margaret Thatcher
- “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “I have learned that real angels don’t have gossamer white robes and cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days’ sweat.”
- “The harder you work, the luckier you get.” – Gary Player
- “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
- “Superior service is a day-to-day, person by person, challenge. Today is the day… the challenge is yours.”
- “We are not a team because we work together. We are a team because we respect, trust and care for each other.”
- “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
- “The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?” – Steve Schulte
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “Hey there, Mr. Grumpy Gills. When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.” – Dory, Finding Nemo
- “A visionary sees light in the dark.”
- “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”
- “You will never have this day again, so make it count.”
- “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz
- “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
- “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
- “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings
- “If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” – Kenneth Goldsmith
- “The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson
- “Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” – Ken Poirot
- “Every day may not be good… but there’s something good in every day.” – Alice Morse Earle
- “Success only comes to those who dare to attempt.” – Mallika Tripathi
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