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We spend a large part of our lives at work.
Sometimes it just flows effortlessly and you have a good day (or week).
And other times… well, we all have those days when motivation seems to be hidden elsewhere and it’s all too easy to get stuck in negative thinking.
That’s why in today’s post I want to share 101 positive quotes about the workplace.
To help you find a positive mindset again, renew your motivation, make you laugh, relieve some stress and make your team stronger.
I hope you’ll find something useful here, for yourself and perhaps also to help a colleague by sharpening his or her perspective a little or at least giving him a good laugh.
Positive workplace quotes for inspiration
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you will be successful.”
–Albert Schweitzer
“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
“Pleasure at work ensures perfection at work.”
– Aristotle
“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
–Robert Louis Stevenson
“The only limit to our awareness of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude.”
–Ralph Marston
“Choose a job you love, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”
– Confucius
“The future depends on what you do today.”
–Mahatma Gandhi
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vidal Sassoon
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to realize theirs.”
– Farrah Gray
“The harder you work for something, the better you will feel when you achieve it.”
–Thomas Jefferson
“Your work will fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you think is great work.”
–Steve Jobs
“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do.”
– Lou Holtz
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
–Winston Churchill
“Dream big, work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people.”
–Robin Sharma
“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain
“What you do today can improve your tomorrow.”
–Ralph Marston
“Be so nice that they can’t ignore you.”
–Steve Martin
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Whatever you have or wherever you are, always try to make the best use of your circumstances to pursue your goal.”
–Theodore Roosevelt
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.”
– Maya Angelou
“Don’t look at the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
– Sam Levenson
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
–Peter Drucker
Positive workplace quotes for motivation
“Great things in business are never done by one person. They are done by a team of people.”
–Steve Jobs
“Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about caring for those in your care.”
– Simon Sinek
“The way to start is to stop talking and start doing.”
–Walt Disney
“If you want to elevate yourself, elevate someone else.”
– Booker T. Washington
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
–Henry Ford
“Don’t be busy. Be productive.”
– Tim Ferriss
“The only person you should try to be better than the person you were yesterday.”
–Tony Robbins
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great.”
– Zig Ziglar
“Do not strive to be a success, but to be of value.”
–Albert Einstein
“We can only do so little; together we can do so much.”
– Helen Keller
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you can’t do.”
–Walter Bagehot
“It’s not about perfection. It’s about the effort.”
– Jillian Michaels
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
– John D. Rockefeller
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
–Steve Jobs
“The expert at anything was once a beginner.”
–Helen Hayes
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
–Nelson Mandela
“Every achievement begins with the decision to try.”
– Brian Littrell
“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to look for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going.”
–Beverly Sills
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
–Winston Churchill
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
–Wayne Gretzky
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle
Funny and positive workplace quotes for stress relief
“I’m always late to the office, but I compensate for that by leaving early.”
– Charles Lam
“If you think your boss is stupid, just remember: if he were smarter, you wouldn’t have a job.”
–John Gotti
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine not having one.”
–Oscar Wilde
“People who never do more than they get paid for, never get paid more than they do.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“The difference between trying and triumph is only a little!”
– Marvin Phillips
“I love work; it fascinates me. I can sit and watch it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome
“The closest anyone ever comes to perfection is filling out a job application.”
–Stanley J.Randall
“Work is against human nature. The evidence is that it makes us tired.”
– Michel Tournier
“The only thing that ever brought success was a hen.”
– Sara Brown
“If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not and never will reach its full potential, that word would be ‘encounters’.”
– Dave Barry
“I have all the money I’ll ever need if I die at four o’clock this afternoon.”
– Henry Youngman
“The reward for good work is more work.”
–Tom Sachs
“Executive capacity means deciding quickly and letting someone else do the work.”
– Count Nightingale
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather choose the lock.”
–Claude McDonald
“The problem with unemployment is that as soon as you wake up in the morning, you’re already working.”
– Slappy White
“I always wanted to be someone, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
– Lily Tomlin
“Doing nothing is very difficult… you never know when you are done.”
–Leslie Nielsen
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubles that.”
–Douglas Adams
“Hard work has never killed anyone, but why would you take the risk?”
– Edgar Bergen
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough not to quit.”
– George Carlin
“The brain is a beautiful organ; it starts working as soon as you get up in the morning and doesn’t stop until you get to the office.’
–Robert Frost
“My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still working.”
–Bill Murray
“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 best excuse not to go to work is that you’re already there.”
–Jim Gaffigan
“The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”
– Lily Tomlin
“If you think your job is hard, try being an assistant to a boss who thinks he’s funny.”
–Jerry Seinfeld
Short positive workplace quotes for team building
“Dream big. Start small.”
– Simon Sinek
“Make every day count.”
–Thomas Edison
‘Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
–Steve Jobs
“Work smarter, not harder.”
– Allen F. Morgenstern
“Teamwork makes the dream work.”
– John C. Maxwell
“Focus on the good.”
– Zig Ziglar
“Create your future.”
–Peter F. Drucker
“Let it happen.”
–Gary Vaynerchuk
“Embrace the challenge.”
–Richard Branson
‘Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
–Arthur Ashe
“Keep moving forward.”
–Walt Disney
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
– Michael Jordan
“Stay positive, work hard.”
– Debbie Millman
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
– Maya Angelou
“Dream bigger.”
–Tony Hsieh
“Never stop learning.”
–Stephen Covey
“Take the initiative.”
–Jack Welch
“Be the change.”
–Mahatma Gandhi
“Set a good example.”
–Peter F. Drucker
“Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”
–Michelle Obama
“Make excellence a habit.”
– Aristotle
“Believe and achieve.”
– Zig Ziglar
“Attitude is everything.”
– Charles Swindoll
“Small progress is still progress.”
–Tony Robbins
“Done is better than perfect.”
–Sheryl Sandberg
“Work hard. Be kind.”
– Conan O’Brien
“Rise and grind.”
– Dwayne Johnson
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