Introduction
How do you get a dose of motivation when you need one? How do you help your employees who seem stagnant or troubled? The demands and challenges of the workplace can leave your employees with many different emotions. Quotes can serve as a motivational tool, an inspirational guide, a reminder, or even a sense of support. Similar to a mantra, consider a weekly quote for your team. Have them write it on a sticky note, or use their computer’s sticky note functionality to reference it daily. Below you’ll find a collection of my favorite powerful inspirational quotes for the workplace.
Teamwork Quotes
- “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford
- “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro
- “Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” – Mattie Stepanek
- “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson
- “Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.” – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Quotes for High Performers
- “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.” – Aristotle
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “Perfection is the enemy of progress.” – Winston Churchill
Confidence Quotes
- “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “The question isn’t who’s going to let me, it’s who’s going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
- “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” – Peter T. McIntyre
- “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barrie
Empathy Quotes
- “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care” Theodore Roosevelt
- “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” – Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
- “Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘You’re not alone.’” – Brené Brown
- “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “The highest form of knowledge is empathy.” – Bill Bullard
Encouraging Quotes for Challenging Work Environments
- “The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.” – Les Brown
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “It’s not about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” – Rocky Balboa
- “Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.” – Henry Rollins
Leadership Quotes
- “People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.” ―Laura Schlessinger
- “A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.” – Douglas MacArthur
- “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
- “Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek
- “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasow
Conclusion
Whether your team members are high performers, feeling the weight of challenges, or lacking confidence, reading inspirational quotes can instill motivation needed to keep pushing. Share these with your team, and use them as power mantras.
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