45 Best Motivational Quotes For Work: Perfect For Presentations & Slide Decks
Last updated: September 16, 2021
Focus, determination, and focus. How do you inspire your team? These quotes can help with motivation they need. Great for presentations, slide decks, corporate retreats, or reflection in your next team meeting.
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- “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
– Woody Allen, American film director - “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act. But a habit.”
– Aristotle, Greek philosopher - “If you are not where you want to be, do not quit, Instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.”
– Eric Thomas, American motivational speaker - “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
– Henry Ford, American industrialist - “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
– Henry Ford, American industrialist - “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
– Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher - “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
– Meister Eckhart, German theologian - “Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities.”
– Sophia Amoruso, American businesswoman - “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken..”
– Warren Buffett, American business magnate - “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”
– John C. Maxwell, American author - “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe, American tennis player - “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”
– Mark Twain, American author - “You can have results or excuses. Not both.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American actor - “There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.”
– Alan Cohen, author - “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
– Maya Angelou, American poet - “Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.”
– Leo Babauta, author - “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
– Tim Ferriss, American entrepreneur - “You have the power on your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
– Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor - “Work harder on you than everyone else and you will become unusually successful.”
– Dani Johnson, Businesswomen - “Self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do.”
– Clayton M. Christensen, American business consultant - “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author - “Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.”
– Miguel De Unamuno, Spanish essayist - “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend first four sharpening the axe. “
– Abraham Lincoln, 16th president - “What better place than here, what better time than now.”
– Tony Robbins, American author - “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without”
– Confucius, Chinese philosopher - “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur - “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
– Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur - “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president - “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison, American inventor - “You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Lorimer, American journalist - “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, 32nd president - “The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi, Indian activist - “If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.”
– Catherine Pulsifier, Author - “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
– John D. Rockefeller, American business magnate - “If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.”
– Elon Musk, business magnate - “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”
– Sheryl Sandberg, American business executive - “Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.”
– Stanley McChrystal, retired United States Army general - “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together”
– Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch post-impressionist painter - “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
– Michael Jordan, American basketball player - “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
– Lou Holtz, former American football player - "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
– Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist - "If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing. "
– Ernest Hemingway, American novelist - "Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler."
– Albert Einstein, Theoretical physicist - "Innovation distinguishes from a leader and a follower."
– Steve Jobs, American business magnate - “Tough times never last, but tough people do.“
– Robert Schuller, motivational speaker
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