The days might be getting shorter, but they certainly feel longer. With the holiday season fast approaching, it’s proving more and more difficult to stay focused and get motivated. As cheesy as it sounds, I often turn to inspirational quotes to get me in the work state-of-mind.

 

Here are 25 motivational, leadership and business quotes to inspire you throughout the day.

 

(My current mantra is #3!)

1. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter F. Drucker
2. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
3. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
4. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
5. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan
6. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
7. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” – Sam Walton
8. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
9. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter
10. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair
11. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
12. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Henry David Thoreau
13. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy
14. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
15. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
16. “People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.” – Mary Kay Ash
17. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela.
18. “The biggest cowards are managers who don’t let their people know where they stand.” – Jack Welch
19. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
20. “Be who you are and say how you feel. Those who matter don’t mind and those who mind don’t matter.” – Dr. Seuss
21. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi
22. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
23. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
24. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
25. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

 

Bonus Quote: “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. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs

-SS