- Employee Engagement Quotes-When to use and when not to
- A short collection of employee engagement quotes
Employee engagement is the commitment the employee has towards the organization. Not because s/he is being paid, but because s/he is emotionally invested in the company because they are passionate about their job and give it their all and care about the company’s goals.
Employee engagement has to come from within. It’s not something that can be forced upon them. And for that, oftentimes, will need inspiration.
In this article are a collection of inspiring quotes for employees. And there certainly is a time and place for using them.
When to use employee quotes
Quotations that inspire and that capture a mood can be used at the workplace. Use employee engagement quotations to uplift and motivate employees often; to inspire or recognize their contribution to the workplace.
For example, it can be the first thing the employee sees when they login — like a ‘thought for the day’. Or while trying to communicate the company policy or values.
When not to use employee quotes
Inspiring employee engagement quotes, for it have meaning, needs to have context. If employees are presented with these quotes too often, chances are they will not take it seriously, and needless to say, it diminishes the impact. Therefore, be sure of when to use it so that it hits home, and the organization won’t come across as being insincere.
Now let’s look at some employee engagement quotes:
- You don’t have to be great at something to start, but you have to start to be great at something. – Zig Ziglar, author and motivational speaker
- For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. – Mary Kay Ash, businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
- You have to want to be engaged. There has to be a deep-seated desire in your heart and mind to participate, to be involved, and to make a difference. If the desire isn’t there, no person or book can plant it within you. – Tim Clark, president of Emirates
- Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. – Dale Carnegie, writer and lecturer
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle, Greek philosopher
- Employees don’t need to be best friends, but there does need to be a level of mutual respect and understanding. – Kathryn Minshew, CEO and co-founder of The Muse
- Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. – Sir Richard Branson, entrepreneur and founder of Virgin Group
- It is better to be a stepping stone than a stumbling block. – Mark Samraj, author
- Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn, actress and humanitarian
- The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. – Phil Jackson, former professional basketball player
- You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you. – Barack Obama, former US president
- Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson
- 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. – Steve Jobs
- It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. –Elon Musk
- Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me. –Sheryl Sandberg
- It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. – Mark Twain
- History rarely yields to one person, but think and never forget what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you. – Tim Cook
- You were not born a winner and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be. – Lou Holtz
- Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re probably right. – Henry Ford
- Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new. – Seth Godin
- When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t. – Thomas Edison
- You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context. – José Mourinho
- First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events. – Marie Curie
- The cynics may be the loudest voices but I promise you, they will accomplish the least. – Barack Obama
- Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning ‘bit’ always switched on. – Satya Nadella
- With so many people saying it couldn’t be done, all it takes is an imagination. – Michael Phelps
- If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe. — Abraham Lincoln
- When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation—the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing—is essential for high levels of creativity. — Daniel H. Pink, Drive