150+ Positive Wednesday Motivation Quotes For Work
Want to feel great about work? Check out these 150 Wednesday motivational quotes about work. Share these quotes with your team, friends, and family too!
These positive quotes and words of wisdom about work and success will help you gain a new perspective on your job. The overwhelming feeling that we get from the crazy fast pace of work and life can leave us feeling overwhelmed and affect our productivity.
We all feel like we need to work harder and more efficiently, but often times we forget about enjoying the little things or taking care of ourselves. These motivational quotes will help remind you just that. It doesn’t matter if it is your first day on the job or if you’ve been in an office for 20 years, you can use the inspiration from our 150+ positive work quotes to stay motivated and upbeat.
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Don't be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills
You must get good at one of two things. Planting in the spring or begging in the fall. –Jim Rohn
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. –Steve Jobs
The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100%. –Patti Digh
There is no passion to be found playing small. –Nelson Mandela
Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. –William Shakespeare
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. –Stephen King
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. –Rita Mae Brown
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. –Polybius
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. –John C. Maxwell
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. –Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never have enough.” Oprah Winfrey
“For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; each moment offers life.” Oscar Auliq-Ice
“Gratitude changes us.” Oscar Auliq-Ice
“At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into an endless sea of gratitude from which I have never emerged.” Patch Adams
“Being grateful for what you have is the key to peace and happiness.” Pravin Agarwal
“Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude, don’t complain; just work harder, never give up.” Randy Pausch
“Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.” Richelle E. Goodrich
“It’s a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.” Robert Benigni
“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.” Roy T. Bennett
“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” Roy T. Bennett
“Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift.” Roy T. Bennett
“Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life.” Sanaya Roman
“Just remember to say THANK YOU sometimes, for all of these everyday extraordinary gifts.” Scott Stabile
“Those who are too arrogant to say thank you find boredom in life. They are often depressed, unhappy and lived an empty life.” Sesan Kareem
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. –George Bernard Shaw
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. –Bill Gates
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. –Adolphe Monod
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. –H. Jackson Brown
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. –David Lloyd George
Education is the mother of leadership. –Wendell Willkie
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. –Peter Drucker
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. –Stephen Covey
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. –Will Rogers
Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. –John F. Kennedy
Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war. –John Shebbeare
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. –Robert H. Schuller
Goals determine what you're going to be. –Julius Erving
He that rises late must trot all day. –Benjamin Franklin
He who gains time gains everything. –Benjamin Disraeli
He who knows most grieves most for wasted time. –Dante
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. –Warren Bennis
“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness, It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.” Amy Collette
“Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant, a seed, this plants the giant miracle.” Ann Voskamp
“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” Anthony Robbins
“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness, its right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.” Brené Brown
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” Eckhart Tolle
“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.” Elie Wiesel
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” Epicurus
“Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves and spend without fear of bankruptcy.” Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
“It’s up to us to choose contentment and thankfulness now, and to stop imagining that we have to have everything perfect before we’ll be happy.” Joanna Gaines
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates vision for tomorrow.” Melody Beattie
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” Muhammad Ali
“Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and legs. The quick answer is I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.” Nick Vujicic
“One of the best ways to take pain out of past experiences is to replace the hurt with gratitude.” Nick Vujicic
“True forgiveness is when you can say, ‘thank you for that experience.” Oprah Winfrey
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. –Somerset Maugham
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb
If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. –John Wooden
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. –Lawrence J. Peter
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. –Henry David Thoreau
In a day, when you don't come across any problems –you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path. –Swami Vivekananda
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. –Winston Churchill
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. –Latin Proverb
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. –Arnold Bennett
It is never too late to be who you might have been. –George Eliot
It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers
It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? –Henry David Thoreau
It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. –Jesse Jackson
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” Michael Jordan
“Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.” Og Mandino
“Do the thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” Oprah Winfrey
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” Pablo Picasso
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” Robert Collier
“All life is an experiment, the more experiments you make the better.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.” Robert Collier
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” Robert F. Kennedy
“I would prefer even to fail with honour than win by cheating.” Sophocles
“I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” Thomas A. Edison
“Show me a fully satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” Thomas A. Edison
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas A. Edison
“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” Thomas J. Watson
“I’d rather change my mind and succeed, than have my own way and fail.” Unknown
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Vidal Sassoon
“Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.” W. Clement Stone
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” William Feather
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. –Norman Schwarzkopf
Life is full of obstacle illusions. –Grant Frazier
Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life. –George Burns
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. –Stephen Covey
Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today. –Benjamin Franklin
Never let yesterday use up today. –Richard H. Nelson
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. –Andrew Carnegie
Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time. –Peter Drucker
Nothing happens until something moves. –Albert Einstein
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year –and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade. –Anthony Robbins
Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. –Unknown
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real. –Sara Paddison
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. –Peter Drucker
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself– the invisible battles inside all of us– that’s where it’s at. –Jesse Owens
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. –Eleanor Roosevelt
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.” –Franklin Field
The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth. –Maksim Gorky
The impossible is often the untried. –Jim Goodwin
The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart
The most effective way to do it is to do it. –Amelia Earhart
The most important question to ask is, what am I becoming? –Jim Rohn
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. –Carl Sandburg
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. –Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. –Beverly Sills
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. –Attributed to Carl Bard
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. –Hector Louis Berlioz
Time lost is never found again. –Benjamin Franklin
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. –Friedrich Nietzsche
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” David Brinkley
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” Elbert Hubbard
“Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.” General George Patton
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” George Bernard Shaw
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” George Bernard Shaw
“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.” Henry Ford
“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.” Henry Ford
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” Henry Ford
“One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.” Harland (Colonel) Saunders
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.” Henry Ford
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” Henry Ford
“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.” Henry Ford
“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.” Henry Ford
“I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.” Jack Welch
“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” John C. Maxwell
“Strike out on new paths rather than travel on the worn paths of accepted success.” John D. Rockefeller
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” John Wooden
“Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution.” Jeffrey Gitomer
“It’s very hard to find someone who’s successful and dislikes what they do.” Malcolm Gladwell
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” Malcolm X
“It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.” Mark Cuban
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” Maya Angelou
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. –Zig Ziglar
While we are postponing, life speeds by. –Seneca
You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. –Unknown
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day of your working life is part of an interview for a job you don't even know you're going for yet. –Adam Darowski
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. –Claude Bissell
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life. –Zig Ziglar
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. –Forest Witcraft
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. –Doug Larson
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. –General Colin Powell
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. –Cicero
He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost. –Thomas Fuller
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. –Douglas Adams
If it weren’t for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn’t get done. –Michael S. Traylor
If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got. –Lee Iacocca
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. –Samuel Johnson
It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it. –Marcia Wieder
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. –Brian Tracy
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. –John F. Kennedy
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. –General Colin Powell
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. –Samuel Smiles
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. –Tom Peters
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. –T.S. Eliot
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self–esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. –Sam Walton
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. –Sylvia Plath
“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” Socrates
“Always desire to learn something useful.” Sophocles
“Look and you will find it. What is unsought will go undetected.” Sophocles
“Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.” Sophocles
“What now appear as the paradoxes of quantum theory will seem just as common sense to our children’s children.” Stephen Hawking
“Every Master was once a disaster.” T. Harv Eker
“The value of an idea lies in using it.” Thomas A. Edison
“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” Thomas A. Edison
“Recently I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No I replied. I just spent $600,000 training him- Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?” Thomas J. Watson
“Information is a negotiator’s greatest weapon.” Victor Kiam
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” William (Will) Durant
“If you are not willing to learn no one can help you, if you are willing to learn, no one can stop you.” Zig Ziglar
“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.” Adam Osborne
“Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein
“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
“There is little success where there is little laughter.” Andrew Carnegie
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” Benjamin Franklin
“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” Bo Bennet
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." Booker T. Washington
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me?” Brian Tracy
“Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” Bruce Lee
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” Bruce Lee
“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” Christopher Morley
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” Dale Carnegie
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” Dale Carnegie
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. –Doug Larson
Take a rest. A field that has rested yields a beautiful crop. –Ovid
Take the first step in faith. We don't need to see the whole staircase; we just need to take the first step. –Martin Luther King Jr
Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thou shalt progress. –Maimonides 315 The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try–angle. –Author Unknown
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self–restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. –Theodore Roosevelt
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. –Harvey Firestone
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. –Kenneth Blanchard
The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. –Eric Hoffer
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. –Sir Winston Churchill
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration. –George Bernard Shaw
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. –Thomas Henry Huxley
Every no gets me closer to a yes. –Mark Cuban
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. –Bertrand Russell
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. –Elbert Hubbard
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t. –Jim Rohn
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible –and achieve it, generation after generation. –Pearl S. Buck
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. –Jean De La Bruyere
Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician. –Lucille Harper
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose. –Thomas Edison
Time is the wisest counselor of all. –Pericles
Time will take your money, but money won't buy time. –James Taylor
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. –Eva Young
To do two things at once is to do neither. –Publius Syrus
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. –Bill Owens
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or light won’t come in.” Isaac Asimov
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” Jalaluddin Rumi
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” Jim Rohn
“Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.” John C Maxwell
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey
“It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.” Jim Hinckley
“Change is the end result of all true learning.” Leo Buscaglia
“No thief, however skilful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.” Lyman Frank Baum
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi
“An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That’s one of the little known facts.” Malcolm Gladwell
“If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.” Malcolm Gladwell
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” Mark Twain
“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: Know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
“There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” Og Mandino
“If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.” Pam Grout
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. –Scottish Proverb
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. –Napoleon Bonaparte
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. –Cyril Parkinson
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. –Eleanor Roosevelt
You may delay, but time will not. –Benjamin Franklin
You must have long–range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short– range failures. –Charles C. Noble
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. –Les Brown
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. –Jim Rohn
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. –Katharine Hepburn
The best way to succeed is to double your failure rate. –Thomas Watson
This to shall pass. –Proverb
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. –Nelson Mandela
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. –Rabindranath Tagore
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head–that’s assault, not leadership. –Dwight Eisenhower
You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. –Ken Kesey
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. –John Pershing
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. –Ovid
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. –Andre Gide
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. –Baltasar Gracián
Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you. –Mark Cuban
The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. –Leo Kennedy
The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render. –Napoleon Hill
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody up. –Henry Longfellow
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. –Charles Spurgeon
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein
“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” - Albert Einstein
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.” - Albert Einstein
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle
“Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.” - Barack Obama
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” Bertrand Russell
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” Bruce Lee
“Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.” Bruce Lee
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” Bruce Lee
“Experience does for the soul what education does for the mind.” Casey Neistat
“I think sometimes the best training is to rest.” Cristiano Ronaldo
“When talking you are only repeating what you already know, but if you listen you might learn something.” Dalai Lama
“Everything you know about the universe and its laws is more than likely to be 99.99 percent wrong.” Fred Alan Wolf
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” George Bernard Shaw
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver
“Doubt is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.” Gustave Flaubert
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Henry Ford
“You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.” Henry Ford
“My confidence comes from the daily grind-training my butt off day in and day out.” Hope Solo
Conclusion
These motivational quotes and inspirational maxims offer words of wisdom that will reinvigorate your spirit and remind you to take time out for yourself. In a world where we sometimes forget to stop and smell the roses, here is your chance to pause, breathe deep and go easy on yourself. These positive quotes were thoughtfully chosen to help you achieve a better outlook on life, no matter what struggles you may be going through right now.
Now that it’s officially mid-week, your eyes are probably drooping, and your mind is probably drifting towards thoughts of Fridays, vacations, and how you can decide which activities to squeeze into your weekend.
"How do you motivate yourself to stay focused on the task at hand?" This might be a question that you constantly ponder over…
The following are some strategies to consider.
Try creating a checklist for yourself with the most important things to do. This way, you’ll be sure you’re not forgetting anything.
Another thing that works is to write up some personal work principles, which you can then follow throughout your week.
Rewrite your task-related questions and figure out what you need to do, and when. Figure out what’s the right timeframe to finish a particular task and stick to it. This way, you won't spend too much time on any one subject.
How to get your employees motivated?
Motivation is the driving force of success. It’s what gets you out of bed in the morning and keeps you going until bedtime. Motivated employees are also more productive, creative, and work with greater efficiency. The ability to motivate oneself is not a natural trait; it needs to be cultivated over time with practice and discipline.
We are constantly motivated by factors such as rewards, punishment, and fear. Which is why it can be difficult to motivate employees who are not paying attention or who don't fit the company culture. The key to motivating employees is to understand their needs and offer them an incentive that works for them.
What should I post on motivation Wednesday?
Every Wednesday, this question might pop up in your mind: "What should I post on my Instagram account?" “What should I share with my LinkedIn connects?”
Tuesday might be a day for reflection, but Wednesday is a day for inspiration. We have compiled some of the best quotes about motivation to help you get through your day. Go through the list of powerful quotes and share them in your circle to push your friends and well-wishers to help them achieve their best
