50 Motivational Quotes to Elevate Your Work Ethic in 2017

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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

 

  1. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
  2. “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
  3. “The individual who says it’s not possible should move out the way of those doing it.” –Tricia Cunningham
  4. “Build your own dream or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” –Farrah Gray
  5. “Someday is not a day of the week.” –Janet Dailey
  6. “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
  7. “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
  8. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” –Will Rogers
  9. “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
  10. “Never allow a person to tell you ‘no’ who doesn’t have the power to say ‘yes’” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  11. “Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” Arthur Christopher Benson
  12. “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
  13. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” –Dale Carnegie
  14. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” –Thomas A. Edison
  15. “What we fear of doing the most is usually what we most need to do.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
  16. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” –Maya Angelou
  17. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” –Henry Ford
  18. “The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me?” –Ayn Rand
  19. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” –Babe Ruth
  20. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have it.” –Thomas Jefferson
  21. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” –Aristotle
  22. “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
  23. “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” –Elbert Hubbard
  24. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” –Milton Berle
  25. “When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.” –Robert Kiyosaki
  26. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” –Robert Collier
  27. “Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.” –Denis Waitley
  28. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weed.” –Gordon B. Hinckley
  29. “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” –Richard Bach
  30. “Defeat is not the worst of failures, not to have tried is the true failure.” –George Woodbury
  31. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.” –Stephen C. Hogan
  32. “The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have other on your side.” –Margaret Carty
  33. “Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.” –Frank Ocean
  34. “The dictionary is the only place where ‘success’ comes before ‘work’.” –Arthur Brisbane
  35. “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.” –Mark Twain
  36. “Excellence is doing extraordinary things extraordinary well.” – John Gardiner Jr.
  37. “Opportunities are usually disguised at hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” –Ann Landers
  38. “Dare to think for yourself.” – Voltaire
  39. “Teamwork makes the dream work.” –John C. Maxwell
  40. “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
  41. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” Colin Powell
  42. “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” –Anne Frank
  43. “Work hard, be kind and amazing things will happen.” –Conan O’Brien
  44. “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
  45. “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
  46. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” –Lionel Messi
  47. “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” –Rumi
  48. “All wealth is the product of labor.” –John Locke
  49. “The beginning is the most important part of work.” –Plato
  50. “The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” –Jonas Salk