The workplace can be challenging at times.
Stress, demanding supervisors, monotony, and negative colleagues can sap your energy and motivation.
If you’re feeling this way today, this article is here to help uplift your spirits and provide a dose of positive energy.
This collection features 101 quotes from women that are designed to inspire, amuse, uplift, and motivate you in your professional life.
Hopefully, these quotes will help transform a difficult morning or day, bring a smile to your face, and alleviate some stress. Share these positive vibes with colleagues and friends who might also need a lift.
Workplace Quotes by Women for a Boost of Positive and Encouraging Energy
“There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.”
– Amanda Gorman
“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”
– Alice Walker
“Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put sunglasses on.”
– Lady Gaga
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
– Helen Keller
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”
– Michelle Obama
“Be thankful for what you have, and you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
– Maya Angelou
“Not having the best situation but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.”
– Marie Forleo
“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
– Maya Angelou
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
– Helen Keller
“Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do it.”
– Simone Biles
“You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.”
– Kesha
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
– Maya Angelou
“I am experienced enough to do this. I am knowledgeable enough to do this. I am prepared enough to do this. I am mature enough to do this. I am brave enough to do this.”
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”
– Iyanla Vanzant
“The hard work definitely paid off, and hard work always does.”
– Gabby Douglas
“I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you.”
– Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
– Dolly Parton
Short Workplace Quotes by Women
“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
– Amelia Earhart
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
– Suzy Kassem
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’”
– Audrey Hepburn
“Light tomorrow with today.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Done is better than perfect.”
– Sheryl Sandberg
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
– Beverly Sills
“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin
“The expert in anything was once a beginner.”
– Helen Hayes
“It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort.”
– Jillian Michaels
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou
“Stay positive, work hard.”
– Debbie Millman
“The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand
“We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
– Marie Curie
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
– Amelia Earhart
“Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.”
– Emily Dickinson
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
– Coco Chanel
“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”
– Margaret Mead
“Delegate your work. Stop spending dollar time on penny jobs.”
– Mary Kay Ash
“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.”
– Dorothy Parker
“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”
– Brené Brown
Funny Workplace Quotes by Women
“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.”
– Betty Reese
“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”
– Lily Tomlin
“I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams.”
– Sarah Cooper
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
– Rita Mae Brown
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
– Lily Tomlin
“I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I’m lying.”
– Rita Rudner
“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.”
– Phyllis Diller
“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.”
– Sarah Brown
“The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”
– Lily Tomlin
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.”
– Reba McEntire
“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with funny people.”
– Carol Burnett
“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
– Bette Midler
“I’m not late, I just like to make an entrance.”
– Marilyn Monroe
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life… because that field probably isn’t hiring.”
– Dorothy Parker
“The reward for good work is more work.”
– Françoise Giroud
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want them to move in with me.”
– Phyllis Diller
“Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”
– Katharine Whitehorn
“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.”
– Jane Goodall
“Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.”
– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Workplace Quotes by Women for the Tough Days
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
“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
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
– Anne Lamott
“Self-reflection is a much kinder teacher than regret is. Prioritize yourself by making a habit of it.”
– Andrena Sawyer
“As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning.”
– Margaret Heffernan
“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
– Joan Collins
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
– Helen Keller
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
– Maya Angelou
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”
– Carrie Fisher
“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
“The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen.”
– Jessica Ennis
“Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.”
– Aisha Tyler
“Don’t run before you can crawl. It’s a very hard business, full of many, many extremely creative, talented people who work hard and still fail. If you have the basic building blocks behind you, you’re much more likely to do well.”
– Anna Wintour
“If you’re in a job that you hate, don’t be scared of seeking out something that might be riskier. Anything can turn into something with passion and hard work.”
– Whitney Wolfe Herd
“A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.”
– Mildred Struven
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin. But you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
– Harper Lee
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.”
– Helen Keller
“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich
“Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.”
– Anna Quindlen
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
– Maya Angelou
Inspirational Workplace Quotes by Women
“Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.”
– Gertrude B. Elion
“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“The key to success is to start before you are ready.”
– Marie Forleo
“Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.”
– Jana Kingsford
“I don’t believe in failure. It’s not failure if you enjoyed the process.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.”
– Margaret Thatcher
“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.”
– Lucille Ball
“For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.”
– Jessica Savitch
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life forever.”
– Amy Poehler
“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”
– Sheryl Sandberg
“Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.”
– Hillary Clinton
“If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself. And the organization gets pulled up with you.”
– Indra Nooyi
“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader.”
– Dolly Parton
“People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.”
– Michelle Obama
“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.”
– Marilyn Monroe
“Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“You can achieve anything you put your mind and hard work to.”
– Sara Sampaio
“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.”
– Margaret Fuller
“The creative adult is the child who survived.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
– Gail Devers
Want more inspiration and motivation for work? Then have a look at these inspirational workplace quotes, the short work quotes here and also this one with hilarious work quotes for stress relief.
