Some mornings you just feel tired and unmotivated.
And some days at work sure do seem longer than others.
So to help you out I’d like to share 120 of the most motivational, positive and powerful short work quotes.
I hope you’ll find something here that will renew your energy. Give you a jolt of motivation or a few laughs to release some of that stress.
And inspiration so you can make this day a successful one.
Positive Short Work Quotes for Quick Motivation
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
– T.S. Eliot
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe
“Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.”
– Frank Ocean
“Make each day your masterpiece.”
– John Wooden
“Dream big and dare to fail.”
– Norman Vaughan
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Happiness is not by chance but by choice.”
– Jim Rohn
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Perfect is boring. Human is beautiful.”
– Tyra Banks
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Impossible is for the unwilling.”
– John Keats
“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer
“Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.”
– Stephen Covey
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
“Dreams don’t work unless you do.”
– John C. Maxwell
“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
– Tim Ferriss
Short Inspirational Work Quotes for the Day
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
– Will Rogers
“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
– Vince Lombardi
“Impossible is just an opinion.”
– Paulo Coelho
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“The expert in anything was once a beginner.”
– Helen Hayes
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
– Tim Notke
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work.”
– Stephen King
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
– Yoda
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
– Babe Ruth
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
– Sam Levenson
“Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
– Farrah Gray
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
– Ralph Marston
“The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.”
– Richard Bach
“Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships.”
– Michael Jordan
“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
– Albert Einstein
“Light tomorrow with today.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Short Hard Work Quotes to Help You Reach Your Dreams
“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien
“Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.”
– Dustin Lynch
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vidal Sassoon
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
– Henry Ford
“A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.”
– Ralph Lauren
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
– Bruce Lee
“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
– Henry Ford
“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”
– Kobe Bryant
“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.”
– Margaret Thatcher
“If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.”
– Michael Jordan
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou
“Without labor, nothing prospers.”
– Sophocles
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
– Beverly Sills
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
– Robert Collier
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”
– Colin Powell
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”
– John F. Kennedy
“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.”
– Malcolm Forbes
“Without a struggle there can be no progress.”
– Frederick Douglass
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle
“All growth depends upon activity.”
– Calvin Coolidge
Funny Short Work Quotes for Stress Relief
“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.”
– Betty Reese
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
– Charles Lamb
“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.”
– Don Herold
“Beat the 5 o’clock rush. Leave work at noon.”
– Unknown
Television is not real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.”
– Bill Gates
“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”
– Robert Orben
“There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.”
– David Letterman
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas Edison
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’”
– Audrey Hepburn
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.”
– Zig Ziglar
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
– Lily Tomlin
“I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I’m lying.”
– Rita Rudner
“If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.”
– Steven Wright
“I am an early bird and a night owl. So I am wise, and I have worms.”
– Michael Scott (from the TV-show The Office)
“Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.”
– Billie Burke
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
– Mark Twain
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
– Bill Gates
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
– Edgar Bergen
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
– Winnie the Pooh
Short Work Quotes for Those Tough and Bad Days
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action.”
– Carrie Fisher
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.”
– Helen Keller
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson
“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
– Colin Powell
“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
“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
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
– Truman Capote
“As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning.”
– Margaret Heffernan
“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
– Joan Collins
“Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens.”
– Helen Keller
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
– Maya Angelou
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
– Harry Golden
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.”
– Barack Obama
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
– Dale Carnegie
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”
– Maya Angelou
Short Motivational Work Quotes for Success
“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency.”
– Dwayne Johnson
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
– Muhammad Ali
“The best revenge is massive success.”
– Frank Sinatra
“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.”
– Robert Collier
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
– Henry Ford
“Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally.”
– David Frost
“You are enough just as you are.”
– Meghan Markle
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
– Zig Ziglar
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
– Jim Rohn
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
– Joe Girard
“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.”
– Johnny Cash
“Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’”
– Cory Booker
“Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.”
– Vaibhav Shah
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
– Mary Anne Radmacher
“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.”
– John C. Maxwell
“If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working on it.”
– Michael Jordan
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
– Amelia Earhart
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
– William Feather
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
– Suzy Kassem
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