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Are you searching for motivation and inspiration? Look no further than these encouraging quotes for work!

Even on the most challenging days, words of wisdom from famous leaders and thinkers can boost your energy, focus, and positivity. Whether you’re working toward a specific goal, trying to stay motivated, or wishing to work better with others, a quote can help. So, start incorporating inspirational work quotes into your daily routine and enhance your motivation for professional success and personal fulfillment.

Quotes about perseverance

  1. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
  2. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou
  3. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
  4. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill
  5. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
  6. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  7. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  8. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
  9. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot
  10. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi

Quotes about determination

  1. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
  2. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.” – Stephen C. Hogan
  3. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  4. “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
  5. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
  6. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  7. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
  8. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  9. “It takes determination to see a dream come to pass. The question is not will you start, but will you finish.” – Joel Osteen
  10. “Working hard, being patient and being full of determination is perhaps the most fulfilling way of becoming rich” – Robert Gardner

Quotes about goals

  1. “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  2. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  3. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
  4. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
  5. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” – Henry Ford
  6. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins
  7. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra
  8. “Setting goals is the key to success in life. Don’t just think about them, write them down and achieve them.” – Roy T. Bennett
  9. “Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” – Fitzhugh Dodson
  10. “If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.” – Lou Holtz

Setting career goals is an important step in preparing for career advancement.

Quotes about motivation

  1. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
  2. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
  3. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.” – Chantal Sutherland
  4. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
  5. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
  6. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
  7. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
  8. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
  9. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy
  10. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson

Quotes about hard work

  1. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
  2. “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
  3. “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
  4. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
  5. “The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!” – Marvin Phillips
  6. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps
  7. “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.” – Zig Ziglar
  8. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
  9. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
  10. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

Quotes about positive attitude

  1. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
  2. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking.” – Zig Ziglar
  3. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
  4. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
  5. “In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama
  6. “When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.” – Paulo Coelho
  7. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston S. Churchill
  8. “You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  9. “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” – Muhammad Ali
  10. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.” – George Bernard Shaw

Quotes about teamwork

  1. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
  2. “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” – Henry Ford
  3. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan
  4. “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs
  5. “Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” – Vince Lombardi
  6. “None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard
  7. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S. Truman
  8. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” – Andrew Carnegie
  9. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
  10. “None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.” Mother Teresa

Inspirational quotes can help you remain focused, motivated, and optimistic at work and in your personal life. You can achieve remarkable things when you set goals, stay determined, work hard, maintain a positive attitude, and work as a team. Applying these quotes to your daily life lets you stay motivated and focused as you pursue your goals. With perseverance, determination, and a positive attitude, you can overcome any obstacle and achieve your dreams, no matter how difficult the journey is.  

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Kate Newsome is a career coach at zengig. She graduated from Florida State University and has worked for 4 Corner Resources, a nationally renowned staffing agency, since 2015. Throughout her tenure with the company, Kate has gained extensive experience in all aspects of staffing, including administrative and sales support, recruitment, and talent acquisition. She has become an expert in resume writing, helping individuals develop the skills and confidence they need to ace their next interview, and ensuring that they are prepared for success in their chosen careers. Kate's goal is to help individuals achieve their professional goals and find rewarding, fulfilling careers.