20 inspirational quotes in 2023 for your work day

There are some lucky people who are born naturally positive. They don’t need any help or encouragement because they just tend to always be positive, no matter what happens.

And then there are the rest of us—the ones who have to work at being positive, who sometimes struggle with negativity and doubt we can’t quite shake.

When this negativity seeps into our work life, it’s always nice to get a boost of positivity through inspirational quotes that lift us up and inspire us to do better.

Here are 20 of the best positive quotes to help you get through your work day and keep pushing forward.

1. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”

Karen Lamb

2. “The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.”

Richard Bach

3. “When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.”

Karen E. Quinones Miller

4. “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “Someday is not a day of the week.”

Janet Dailey

6. “Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”

Farrah Gray

7. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”

Steve Jobs

8. “Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”

Lou Holtz

9. “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.”

Robert Collier

10. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

Truman Capote

11. “Let your ambition far exceed your talent.”

Anonymous

12. “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.”

Henry Ford

13. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

Jim Rohn

14. “The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.”

Ayn Rand

15. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

Maya Angelou

16. “Success only comes to those who dare to attempt.”

Mallika Tripathi

17. “You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you.”

Tony Morgan

18. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”

Albert Einstein

19. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

Emile Zola

20. “I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

Henry David Thoreau

When you need a positive boost at work, these 20 quotes will help you get through your day.

Whether they’re motivational or inspiring, I hope that these positive quotes can provide encouragement and motivation to make the most of your time at work or running your business.

Remember: You have control over how you spend your days—make them count!