10 Quotes to Motivate You at Work

 

 

 

 

 

 

Staying motivated at work can be difficult. The distractions are many, and even when the passion is there, work can feel exhausting when there isn’t enough time or resources to get everything done. But what if the key to staying motivated isn’t to just grin and get through it, but to dig deeper and remember the reason why you’re doing that work in the first place?

The five-day, 40-hour workweek hasn’t actually been the standard for that long: During the Great Depression in the early 1930s, President Herbert Hoover called for a reduction in labor to avoid mass layoffs nationwide. Then, in 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act, formally establishing the five-day, 40-hour workweek as we know it. The problem is that even though technology has become more advanced in the decades since, employees continue to work the same, if not longer, hours, with boredom or burnout being the inevitable byproducts.

But distraction and depletion don’t have to be the norm. Every person has loads to contribute to the greater good, even if individual tasks can seem small. And sometimes, remembering the bigger picture can pull us out of work-related ruts.

These 10 quotes are meant to inspire you to stay focused and enthusiastic, and to keep going even when the going gets tough.

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
~Unknown (often attributed to Mark Twain or Agatha Christie)"

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."
~Stephen King

"Whenever I feel bad, I use that feeling to motivate me to work harder. I only allow myself one day to feel sorry for myself. When I’m not feeling my best, I ask myself, “What are you gonna do about it?” I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me."
~Beyoncé Knowles

"The future depends on what you do today."
~Mahatma Gandhi

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
~Robert Louis Stevenson

 "Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives."
~Michelle Green

"Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
~Martin Luther King Jr.

"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials."
~Bruce Lee

"You’re going to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
~George Lorimer

"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."
~Yoda

I invite you to initiate an motivation boosting exercise using the quotes by:

1)  Emailing this post to your team.

2) Asking team members to select a quote that resonates the most. (Alternative: team members find a quote they like related to beating the odds that's not listed in this post.)

3) Sharing what the quote means to them during a team meeting.

Keeping motivated at work doesn't happen automatically. It requires deliberate practice and reinforcement.

To your greater success and fulfillment,

Peter Mclees, Leadership Coach, Trainer and Performance Consultant
SMART DEVELOPMENT

 

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