50 Motivational Quotes to Elevate Your Work Ethic in 2017
It’s safe to say we all find ourselves at a crossroad–with all the motivation we need and none at all. For some, small successes become our motivation. They drive us to push longer and harder. For the remainder, witnessing success is pure motivation in its own. Nevertheless, we all have strange and quirky ways of understanding and gaining, but motivational words have no discrimination. Consistency is the most difficult part in maintaining success– and words of encouragement from pivotal figures that paved the way can make all the difference. The next time you find yourself at a crossroad and lack motivation, read through this list and internalize the intention and inspiration.
50 Motivational Quotes to Elevate Your Work Ethic in 2017
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
- “Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you will do it.” –Lou Holtz
- “The individual who says it’s not possible should move out the way of those doing it.” –Tricia Cunningham
- “Build your own dream or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” –Farrah Gray
- “Someday is not a day of the week.” –Janet Dailey
- “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
- “The only to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t find it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” –Steve Jobs
- “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” –Will Rogers
- “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goals. Nothing on Earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.” –Thomas Jefferson
- “Never allow a person to tell you ‘no’ who doesn’t have the power to say ‘yes’” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” Arthur Christopher Benson
- “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
- “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” –Dale Carnegie
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” –Thomas A. Edison
- “What we fear of doing the most is usually what we most need to do.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” –Maya Angelou
- “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” –Henry Ford
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me?” –Ayn Rand
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” –Babe Ruth
- “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have it.” –Thomas Jefferson
- “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” –Aristotle
- “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts
- “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” –Elbert Hubbard
- “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” –Milton Berle
- “When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.” –Robert Kiyosaki
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” –Robert Collier
- “Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.” –Denis Waitley
- “Without hard work, nothing grows but weed.” –Gordon B. Hinckley
- “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” –Richard Bach
- “Defeat is not the worst of failures, not to have tried is the true failure.” –George Woodbury
- “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.” –Stephen C. Hogan
- “The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have other on your side.” –Margaret Carty
- “Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.” –Frank Ocean
- “The dictionary is the only place where ‘success’ comes before ‘work’.” –Arthur Brisbane
- “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.” –Mark Twain
- “Excellence is doing extraordinary things extraordinary well.” – John Gardiner Jr.
- “Opportunities are usually disguised at hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” –Ann Landers
- “Dare to think for yourself.” – Voltaire
- “Teamwork makes the dream work.” –John C. Maxwell
- “Stay positive and happy. Work hard and dope give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.” –Tena Desae
- “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” Colin Powell
- “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” –Anne Frank
- “Work hard, be kind and amazing things will happen.” –Conan O’Brien
- “Believe in yourself and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you can’t accomplish.” –Brad Henry
- “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan
- “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” –Lionel Messi
- “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” –Rumi
- “All wealth is the product of labor.” –John Locke
- “The beginning is the most important part of work.” –Plato
- “The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” –Jonas Salk