Last year, we posted a list of 25 inspirational quotes to help motivate your team. Since then, we’ve been collecting a list of quotes that can inspire greatness. Staying motivated takes total focus and we like nothing more than to help you stay on top of your game. Today, we’re featuring some spectacular words of wisdom on general inspiration and working hard to obtain your goals. Never doubt that when you put forth the effort, great things will happen.
- “There is no substitute for hard work.” Thomas Edison
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
- “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” Vernon Sanders Law
- “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.” Louis Pasteur
- “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” Leo Tolstoy
- “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting.” Buddha
- “There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.” Franz Kafka
- “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.” Malcolm Forbes, Former Publisher of Forbes
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Walt Disney
- “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Albert Einstein
- “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” Henry Ford
- “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” Vernon Sanders Law
- “The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- “You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.” Richard David Bach
- “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.” Thomas Edison
- “Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.” Jose Ortega y Gasset
- “It seems the harder I work, the more luck I have.” Thomas Jefferson
- “If there is no wind, row.” Latin Proverb
- “The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort.” Stephen G.
- “Careers, like rockets, don’t always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.” Gary Sinise
- “Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.” Henry Ford
- “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
Did you find a favorite one above? Do you have any quotes you use to motivate yourself or your team?
Share with us your favorite words and help inspire greatness.
