100 Business Motivation Quotes for Daily Drive
There are days when you feel unstoppable and others when everything feels like an uphill climb.
That’s when motivation matters most. These quotes are here to push you through the resistance, remind you why you started, and reignite your momentum.
Whether you’re leading a company or hustling behind the scenes, a few well-placed words can make all the difference.
Top Business Motivation Quotes
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~ Vidal Sassoon
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. ~ Steve Jobs
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ~ Walt Disney
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~ John D. Rockefeller
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston Churchill
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~ Mark Twain
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill
The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do. ~ Unknown
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~ Jim Rohn
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. ~ Ayn Rand
Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. ~ Will Rogers
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. ~ Zig Ziglar
The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it. ~ Unknown
Dream big and dare to fail. ~ Norman Vaughan
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time. ~ Don Zimmer
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. ~ George Addair
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. ~ Les Brown
Drive & Determination Quotes
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ~ Confucius
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. ~ Thomas A. Edison
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. ~ Julie Andrews
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. ~ Steve Jobs
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. ~ Sam Levenson
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~ Jimmy Johnson
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~ Jim Rohn
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. ~ Robert Collier
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. ~ Winston Churchill
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. ~ Arthur Ashe
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
If you’re going through hell, keep going. ~ Winston Churchill
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~ William James
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~ C.S. Lewis
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~ Zig Ziglar
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~ Vidal Sassoon
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. ~ Joshua J. Marine
Inspiration for Business Quotes
The best way to predict the future is to create it. ~ Peter Drucker
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. ~ Steve Jobs
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. ~ Amelia Earhart
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. ~ Mark Twain
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~ Thomas A. Edison
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~ Bruce Lee
Opportunities don’t happen. You create them. ~ Chris Grosser
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~ Robert Kiyosaki
If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. ~ Steve Jobs
What would you do if you weren’t afraid? ~ Sheryl Sandberg
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. ~ Henry Ford
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ~ Henry Ford
The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. ~ Michael Gerber
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
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right. ~ Henry Ford
The mind is everything. What you think you become. ~ Buddha
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~ Thomas Jefferson
The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something. ~ Seth Godin
If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs. ~ Dhirubhai Ambani
Perseverance in Business Quotes
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. ~ Vince Lombardi
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston Churchill
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. ~ Og Mandino
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius
Fall seven times and stand up eight. ~ Japanese Proverb
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. ~ Conrad Hilton
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
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. ~ Charles R. Swindoll
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~ Margaret Thatcher
Tough times never last, but tough people do. ~ Robert H. Schuller
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. ~ Chinese Proverb
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. ~ Duke Ellington
The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph. ~ George Washington
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ Helen Keller
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. ~ Walter Elliot
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. ~ Tommy Lasorda
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas A. Edison
I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy – I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it. ~ Art Williams
Achievement Mindset Quotes
The mind is everything. What you think you become. ~ Buddha
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. ~ Napoleon Hill
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. ~ Steve Jobs
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. ~ Zig Ziglar
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ~ Albert Schweitzer
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. ~ Oprah Winfrey
It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. ~ Plutarch
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~ Anonymous
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~ John Wooden
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ~ Anatole France
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ~ Walt Disney
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ~ Thomas J. Watson
We become what we think about most of the time. ~ Earl Nightingale
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~ Confucius
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~ C.S. Lewis
