Inspirational Quotes for Work to Break the Monday Blues

Mondays can be tough, and dragging yourself to the desk at home or in the office can be a real dredge. We might have had a great weekend with non-stop errands or spending time with friends. Either way, Monday can be the flattest, most exhausting day of the week. Additionally, we all need a bit of help to get our minds back into work mode and achieve KPIs for 2022.

Motivational quotes for work have had a bad rap in the past. At times, they’ve felt trite and corny, but – in the right hands – words are a powerful thing. They have the power to make us feel better (or worse) like no other art form. 

Our list of inspirational quotes serves as a tool to inspire and motivate your workplace when they walk into the office each Monday morning.

How to Distribute Your Inspirational Quotes for Work

You could simply add your quote to your email footer or broadcast a morning message on Slack or WhatsApp. Additionally, you can inspire your office by utilizing the digital signage in your office to share motivation with your employees and any visitors who might turn up. 

Need help with a design? You could simply use the words or create a little image package. It’s fun to get creative – you could use an online image creation platform like Snappa, Snapseed, or Canva. Similarly, you can rely on the power of the words as they can be just as effective. 

Inspirational Quotes for Work about Perseverance

Never give up. The only way to succeed is to keep trying, even if everyone around you tells you it’s not possible. Mondays can be the hardest to kickstart, so help your colleagues with some wise words from the likes of Einstein, Edison, Confucius, and Julie Andrews!

Inspirational quotes for work:

• “It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer.” -Albert Einstein
• “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -Thomas Edison
• “What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?” -Karen Salmansohn (self-help author)
• “It does not matter how slowly you go. So long as you do not stop.” -Confucius
• “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “Perseverance is failing 19 times. And succeeding the 20th.” -Julie Andrews
• “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” -William Feather
• “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”  -Dale Carnegie
• “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” -Confucius

Quotes about Motivation

Motivation is often a case of recognizing excellence by: 

• Creating a positive environment
• Celebrating the “small wins”
• Surrounding yourself with other motivated people

You can create a positive environment with music – play tunes that uplift. Music with vocals can be distracting, so find a playlist of ambient music to play on your breakroom screens that calm employees. Great work doesn’t just happen. The small wins are the little incremental steps towards the bigger picture.

• “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”  -Mark Twain
• “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”  -Michael Jordan
• “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” -Chinese Proverb
• “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”  -Wayne Gretzky
• “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”   -Paulo Coelho
• “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”   -Babe Ruth
• “Understand that failure is not the opposite of success. It’s part of success.”   -Arianna Huffington
• “Everything you can imagine is real.”  -Pablo Picasso
• “Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”  -Helen Keller
• “Do one thing every day that scares you.”  -Eleanor Roosevelt
• “It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”  -Lewis Carroll
• “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”   -Anne Frank
• “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” -Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational Quotes for Work Quotes Quotes about Teamwork

They say there’s no such thing as luck – good or bad. Success comes with determination and teamwork – the number of hours is rewarded with success. Talent wins games – luck never trumps enthusiasm. There’s no room for amateurs in teamwork – sacrifice and the right decisions maketh the masterpiece. 

Some inspirational quotes for work that encourage team thinking:

• “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” -Frank Ocean
• “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”  -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”  -Henry Ford
• “You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.”  -Martin Luther King
• “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.”  -Roy T. Bennett
• “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”   -Walt Disney
• “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we’re an ocean.”   -Ryunosuke Saturo
• “We rise by lifting others.”    -Robert Ingersoll
• “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”   -Aristotle

Funny Office Quotes

It’s not all about the serious stuff. Sometimes, focusing on the fun side of work-life can get things done and lift the spirits like nothing else. 

Some inspirational quotes for work that will raise a smile:

• “No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”   -Groucho Marx
• “I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”    -Jerome K. Jerome
• “The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.”   -Sarah Brown
• “Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”   -Robert Orben
• “If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. Where X is work, Y is play. And Z is keep your mouth shut.”     -Albert Einstein
• “Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now be quiet: they’re about to announce the lottery numbers!”  -Homer Simpson

Get motivating!

Motivation comes in many forms. Whether you’re relying on Stephen King, Aristotle, Truman Capote, Winston Churchill, or Homer Simpson, help your team make it through their working day. With a positive attitude and a motivated mindset, 2022 goals will be easily achieved.