Updated: January 05, 2023

25 Best Work From Home Quotes for Remote Teams

You found our list of inspiring work from home quotes.

Work from home quotes are sayings that motivate and inspire people who work from home to succeed. Examples include “life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all,” or “they told me to grow roots, instead I grew wings.”  The point of sharing these messages is to motivate remote teams, promote healthy balance in work and life, and even give virtual workers a good laugh.

These sayings are a subset of motivational quotes and are tools for creating a strong remote work culture. The sentiments are similar to remote work books.

This list includes:

  • work from home short quotes
  • work from home quotes funny
  • home office quotes
  • positive work from home quotes
  • remote work motivational quotes

Here we go!

Work from home short quotes

  1. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
  2. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
  3. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking
  4. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” – John Muir
  5. “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” – Pablo Picasso
  6. “Focus on being productive instead of being busy.” – Tim Ferriss
  7. “I can work anywhere.” – Ray Bradbury
  8. “I’m always working. I work wherever I am.” -L’wren Scott
  9. “Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.” Alfred Nobel
  10. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

Work from home quotes funny

  1. “That’s the great irony of letting passionate people work from home. A manager’s natural instinct is to worry about his workers not getting enough work done, but the real threat is that too much will likely get done.” – Jason Fried
  2. “Always take some of the play, fun, freedom, and wonder of the weekend into your week and your work.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
  3. “That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn’t notice, but we did.” Tony Stark from Avengers
  4. “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so.” – Douglas Adams
  5. “If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’” – Dave Barry
  6. “Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he’s supposed to be doing at that moment.” – Robert Benchley
  7. “Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” – Leslie Nielsen
  8. “My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.” -Anonymous
  9. “Show me your pets!” – Mary Regalado, Teambuilding.com host, during every event
  10. “You’re on mute.” – Everyone during the Zoom meeting

Home office quotes

  1. “Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t” – Lucille Ball
  2. “How many times do I have to teach you: just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved.” – Shuri from Black Panther
  3. “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” – Barack Obama
  4. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
  5. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss
  6. “In terms of engaging and influencing your team, especially in a virtual environment, how you say something, or your vocal quality, can sometimes be more important than what you say.” – Hassan Osman
  7. “Wherever work is done, victory is attained.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  8. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey
  9. “Success is having consistent work habits.” – Peter J. Daniels

Positive work from home quotes

  1. “Fulfillment isn’t found over the rainbow-  it’s found in the here and now. Today, I define success by the fluidity with which I transcend emotional landmines and choose joy and gratitude instead.” – RuPaul
  2. “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” – Princess Diana
  3. “I find that I am much more creative when I’ve actually taken care of myself.” – Arianna Huffington
  4. “Always take some of the play, fun, freedom, and wonder of the weekend into your week and your work.” Rasheed Ogunlaru
  5. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
  6. “I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it’s my own.” – Don Watson
  7. “People are more productive working at home than people would have expected. Some people thought that everything was just going to fall apart, and it hasn’t.”  –  Mark Zuckerberg
  8. “Do you want to access talent everywhere, or just in specific markets? If the answer is everywhere, you need to be at least open to the possibility of remote work.” – Katie Burke
  9. “Good work is good work wherever it is.” – Lesley Ann Warren
  10. “Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.” – Steve Wozniak

Remote work motivational quotes

  1. “Successfully working from home is a skill, just like programming, designing or writing. It takes time and commitment to develop that skill, and the traditional office culture doesn’t give us any reason to do that.” – Alex Turnbell
  2. “Be sure when you step, step with care and great tact. And remember that life is a great balancing act.” – Dr. Seuss
  3. “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” – Stephen Covey
  4. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
  5. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland
  6. “To be able to work at home successfully takes all of the following: motivation, perseverance, work, good habits, no excuses, balance, accountability, and action.” – Byron Pulsifer
  7. “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert
  8. “Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.” – Richard Branson
  9. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” – Frank Ocean
  10. “You can thrive and excel when you’re working remotely, if you adopt the mindset, habits and tech tools of professionals who are even more productive outside the office: Learn to think like a “business of one,” and that entrepreneurial mindset will transform your experience of remote work.” – Robert Pozen

Final Thoughts

Work from home quotes are a powerful way to inspire creativity and bring motivational messages to your remote team. Sharing these quotes can have a positive impact on your coworkers’ outlook and the work they have for the day. You can post a positive quote in your remote team’s chosen communication platform, or share a quote during a Zoom meeting. Spreading inspiration and motivation to all remote and work from home employees can create a positive virtual working culture!

Next, check out remote work trends, virtual work locations, and work from home statistics.

FAQ: Work from home quotes

Here are answers to common questions about work from home quotes.

How can you use quotes to motivate remote employees?

You can use quotes to motivate remote employees by sharing and discussing a motivational quote at the beginning of the day, posting a positive quote to your remote team, or adding some of these quotes into your next remote team meeting.

What are some good quotes about working from home?

Some good quotes about working from home are:

  • “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” – Henry Ford
  • “Trying to do it all and expecting it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.” – Sheryl Sandberg
  • “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” -Nelson Mandela

These quotes can give virtual workers a much-needed motivational boost during work from home slumps.

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People & Culture Director at teambuilding.com.
Grace is the Director of People & Culture at TeamBuilding. She studied Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, Information Science at East China Normal University and earned an MBA at Washington State University.

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