A collection of top motivational quotes for employees to keep your workforce inspired. Motivation and success goes hand in hand.
If your workforce is not inspited, motivated and engaged, it will impact the overall grow of your organization. So, posetivity in the workplace is very important.
Positive feedback, inspirational speeches have magical quality to move a workforce and achieve results that is beyond expectation.
In this article, we have curated some of the most inspirational quotes from great achievers.
Table of Content
Productivity and Efficiency
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney
"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort." - Paul J. Meyer
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." - Peter Drucker
"Time is not refundable; use it with intention." - Unknown
"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities." - Stephen Covey
Teamwork and Collaboration
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." - Henry Ford
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision." - Andrew Carnegie
"Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people." - Steve Jobs
"None of us is as smart as all of us." - Ken Blanchard
Leadership and Inspiration
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader
"Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge." - Simon Sinek
"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." - Ronald Reagan
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs
Persistence and Resilience
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." - C.S. Lewis
Innovation and Creativity
"Creativity is intelligence having fun." - Albert Einstein
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." - Albert Einstein
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
Growth and Learning
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you." - B.B. King
Motivation and Passion
"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." - Charles Kingsleigh
"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." - Oprah Winfrey
"Do what you love and the money will follow." - Marsha Sinetar
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." - Maya Angelou
Positivity and Attitude
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results." - Wade Boggs
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude." - Zig Ziglar
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
Success and Achievement
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau
"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
"Opportunities don't happen. You create them." - Chris Grosser
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
Goals and Ambition
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." - Tony Robbins
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
"A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Dream big and dare to fail." - Norman Vaughan
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Integrity and Ethics
"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching." - C.S. Lewis
"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do." - Potter Stewart
"In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you." - Warren Buffett
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson
"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home." - Confucius
Change and Adaptability
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." - Albert Einstein
"Change before you have to." - Jack Welch
"Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win." - Max McKeown
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw
Balance and Well-being
"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." - Jim Rohn
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama
"Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create." - Jana Kingsford
"You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life." - Heather Schuck
"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamott
Courage and Risk-Taking
"Fortune favors the bold." - Virgil
"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." - Richard Branson
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk." - Mark Zuckerberg
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear." - Mark Twain
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." - Wayne Gretzky
Communication and Listening
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said." - Peter Drucker
"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know." - Jim Rohn
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus
"The art of communication is the language of leadership." - James Humes
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Responsibility and Ownership
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Accountability breeds response-ability.” – Stephen Covey
“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.” – George R.R. Martin
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.” – Jim Rohn
Excellence and Quality
“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” – Ralph Marston
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” – Henry Ford
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi
“Do not be afraid of perfection—you will never reach it.” – Salvador Dali
“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.” – Pat Riley
Vision and Purpose
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” – Japanese Proverb
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller
“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.” – Steve Jobs
“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” – George Washington Carver
“Purpose is the reason you journey. Passion is the fire that lights your way.” – Unknown
Service and Giving
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.” – Muhammad Ali
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
Appreciation and Recognition
“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” – Margaret Cousins
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” – William James
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – William Arthur Ward
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” – James Allen
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” – Dalai Lama
These quotes can serve as a source of motivation and inspiration for employees, helping them stay focused, productive, and engaged in their work.
