51 Motivational and Inspirational Quotes for Employees

To keep employees focused, engaged and motivated, what could be better than Quotes from notable personalities!! As a manager, you know how tough it is to keep your employees' morale high, especially during busy or stressful times.

Using the right quotes in the right situations is a great way to lift spirits and remind people why their work is important. Here, we've compiled some of the most motivational and inspirational quotes for work from various sources to reenergize your team.  

Whether it's a short phrase to start your next meeting or longer messages to feature in your weekly newsletter, you'll find a number of positive quotes for work to fit your needs. We hope you find some gems here to motivate your employees.

Top Motivational Quotes for Employees

1. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”- Steve Jobs
    
2. “If you can’t fly, then run; if you can’t run, then walk; if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
    
3. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford
    
4. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour” - Elon Musk
    
5. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”- Warren Buffett
    
6. “Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.” ― Osho
    
7. The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”– Harry Golden
    
8. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” –Joshua J. Marine
    
9. “A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.” – Proverb
    
10. “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and – SNAP – the job’s a game!” — Mary Poppins
     
11. “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
12. “You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.” — Mahatma Gandhi
     
13. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves.” — Chanakya
     
14. “I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape”. ― Charles Dickens
     
15. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” — Kahlil Gibran
     
16. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek” - Barack Obama
     
17. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
     
18. The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” – Elbert Hubbard
     
19. “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank
     
20. “Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.” – Byron Dorgan
     
21. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
     
22. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -Thomas Edison
     
23. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” -Dalai Lama
     
24. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” Henry Ford
     
25. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading” - Lao Tzu
     
26. “By failing to prepare, you’re preparing to fail.” - Benjamin Franklin
     
27. “The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.”  - Walt Disney
     
28. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” - Dale Carnegie
     
29. “Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.” -Joan Collins
     
30. “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
31. “You don’t have to be great at something to start but you have to start to be great at something.” - Zig Ziglar
     
32. “Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and at some point, you will.” - Venus Williams
     
33. “If you’re too comfortable it’s time to move on. Terrified of what’s next? You’re on the right track.” - Susan Fales-Hill
     
34. "Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” - Dwayne Johnson
     
35. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” - Leonardo da Vinci
     
36. “Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be.” -  Benjamin Hardy
     
37. “Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” – Samuel Butler
     
38. "Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!” – David O. McKay
     
39. “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” – Pablo Picasso
     
40. Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interests you.” – Leigh Steinberg
     
41. If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.” – Lawrence Welk
     
42. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” - Albert Einstein
     
43. "The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” - John Maxwell
     
44. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”- Stephen King
     
45. “There’s no magic formula for great company culture. The key is just to treat your staff how you would like to be treated.” - Richard Branson
     
46. “If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”  - Simon Sinek
     
47. “Acquiring the right talent is the most important key to growth. Hiring was - and still is - the most important thing we do.” - Marc Benioff,
     
48. “Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.” - Doris Kearns Goodwin
     
49. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”- Abraham Lincoln
     
50. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”- Confucius
     
51. ”This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” - Alan Wilson Watts

So, these are some of the best inspirational quotes to use at workplaces to motivate your employees. 

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