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Working at home has plenty of benefits, from the environment to the time saved on travel, and flexibility in your day. However, after your first 2 or 3 months, for many people, the clear work and home boundaries start to blend. From laying in bed till the last possible minutes, working in your PJs to having to be interrupted during huge data analysis to go to the shops or tend to the kids.
People start to lose focus, direction, and purpose. There have been instances where the screen has even regressed existing previous close working relationships.
Well for you we have compiled 100 quotes to help you regain focus, direction and continue the journey of self-improvement.
Usually, the quotes would be structured in categories, but I have found in my time that I prefer to have a mixed variety as the most random of quotes can have the biggest impact on my thinking.
Enjoy and let us know which quote really impacted you!
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100 home office quotes to help you focus
“The goal is not to be perfect by the end, the goal is to be better today.” – Simon Sinek
“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”– John C. Maxwell
“When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.” – Simon Sinek
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs
“Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.” – Simon Sinek
“Growth and comfort do not coexist.” – Ginni Rometty
“There is a difference between working together and working in the same office.” – Simon Sinek
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”– Barak Obama
“Vision is a destination – a fixed point to which we focus all or effort. Strategy is a route – and adaptable path to get us where we want to go.” – Simon Sinek
“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen
“Dream big, Start small. But most of all start.” – Simon Sinek
“By changing nothing, nothing changes.”– Tony Robbins
“You like to imagine yourself in control of your fate, consciously planning the course of your life as best you can. But you are largely unaware of how deeply your emotions dominate you. They make you veer toward ideas that soothe your ego. They make you look for evidence that confirms what you already want to believe. They make you see what you want to see, depending on your mood, and this disconnect from reality is the source of the bad decisions and negative patterns that haunt your life. Rationality is the ability to counteract these emotional effects, to think instead of react, to open your mind to what is really happening, as opposed to what you are feeling. It does not come naturally; it is a power we must cultivate, but in doing so we realize our greatest potential.”― Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” —Herman Melville, Moby Dick
“Learn to question yourself: Why this anger or resentment? Where does this incessant need for attention come from? Under such scrutiny, your emotions will lose their hold on you. You will begin to think for yourself instead of reacting to what others give you.”― Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”–Pericles
“Not to become someone else, but to be more thoroughly yourself.”― Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”– Anne Enright
“As Abraham Lincoln said, “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”― Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
“We see people not as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.”
“We summon up the energy to attack the problem, but in the back of our mind we have some doubts, are we up to the task?” – Robert Green, The Laws of Human Nature.
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity” ― Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”–Socrates
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”– Buckminster Fuller
“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.” ― sun tzu, The Art of War
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”― Sun Tzu
“If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”– Maya Angelou
“Good things take time.” – John Wooden
“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S Lewis
“If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.” – Barack Obama
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
“As soon as anyone starts telling you to be “realistic,” cross that person off your invitation list.” – John Eliot
“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.” – Plato
“All great changes are preceded by chaos.” – Deepak Chopra
“As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.” – Caesar
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” — Bill Gates
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
“People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” — Elbert Hubbard
Love change, fear staying the same. – Maxime Lagacé
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right. —Henry Ford
Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it or learn from it. —Rafiki, The Lion King
“Never, never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill
“One day or day one. You decide” – Paulo Coelho
“Delegate your work. Stop spending dollar time on penny jobs.” — Mary Kay Ash
“We create our own Demons.” – Tony Stark
“The night is darkest just before the dawn” – Thomas Fuller
“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” – Harvey Dent
“Everything flows, and nothing abides, everything gives way, and nothing stays fixed.”-Heraclitus
“Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus
“Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.”– Caesar
”Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped”. – African Proverb
”A roaring lion kills no game”. – African proverb
“He who lives on illusions, dies of disillusion.” – South American Proverb
“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.”— German proverb
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
“I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.” – Nelson Mandela
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” – Invictus by William Ernest Henley
“A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.” ― Madonna
“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Don’t count the days; make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
“A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali
“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it.” – Muhammad Ali
“The best answer will come from the person who is not angry.” – Arab Proverb
“The smarter you are, the less you speak.” – Arab Proverb
“Everyone is critical of the flaws of others, but blind to their own.” – Arab Proverb
“It’s better to fix what you have than wait to get what you don’t have.” – Arab Proverb
“Lack of intelligence is the greatest poverty.” – Arab Proverb
“I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.” – Rumi
“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.” – Malcolm X
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.” – Rumi
“It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” – Rumi
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.” – Rumi
“He who dreams for too long will become like his shadow.” – Indian Proverb
“He who does not climb, will not fall either.” – Indian Proverb
“A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.” – Chinese Proverb
“A little impatience will spoil great plans.” – Chinese Proverb
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Chinese Proverb
“A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things.” – Chinese Proverb
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
“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
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.” – Viggo Mortensen
“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” – David Allen
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” ― William Faulkner
“It’s easy to look back and see it, and it’s easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don’t look beneath the surface until it’s too late.” – Wendelin Van Draanen
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew, Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death, Rode the six hundred.” – The charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”- Stephen Hawking
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” Martin Luther King Jr
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.” – Malcolm X
“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” – Richard Branson
“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.” – Warren Buffet
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
“Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.” Satya Nadella – Microsoft CEO
And I leave you with one of my personal favorites
“Know yourself and you will win all battles” – Sun Tzu
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The content on this site has been written by Fehed Nicass who has over a decade worth of experience in sales and has worked remotely for the past 2 years.