25 Management Quotes To Get You Going

If you’re anything like me, you love a good quote to get you going and keep you motivated during your working week, so I thought I’d share with you my list of top management quotes to help you start your week off in the right mindset.

1. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. – Winston Churchill
2. If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure. – David Ambrose
3. The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.  – John Scully
4. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.  – Norman Vincent Peale
5. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.  – G.K. Chesterton
6. Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.  – Napoleon
7. The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. – Carl Sandburg
8. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.  – Maya Angelou
9. People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. – Andrew Carnegie
10. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.  – Marian Wright Edelman
12. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.  – Rollo May
13. When employees and employers, even co-workers, have a commitment to one another, everyone benefits.  – Donald Trump
14. It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome.  – William James
15. The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.  – Anthony Robbins
16. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.  – Lakshmi Mittal
17. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.  – Winston Churchill
18. The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.  – Vince Lombardi
19. In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.  – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
20. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.  – Ralph Lauren
22. I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.  – Arthur Rubinstein
23. Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.  – David McNally
24. The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.  – Thomas Edison
25. Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.  – Francesca Reigle

Many thanks

Mark Williams

Head of Training

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