Winter is a beautiful season with snowy and bright days.
But it’s also a dark and cold time of the year with days that feel too short and work that feels heavier than usual.
For me, this is the time when I find it harder to muster positivity and the motivation that comes easily in spring and summer.
If you’re like me then today’s post will help you out. In it I want to share 105 of the most uplifting, funny and motivational winter quotes for work.
I hope you’ll find something here to give you a boost of energy, renewed motivation and a few laughs to help release a bit of overwhelm and stress in your life.
Motivational Winter Quotes for Work
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”
– Charles Dickens
“The short days of winter is a reminder to simplify and spend your hours of light and energy only on your most important work.”
– Jenny Dobbins
“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”
– Henry Rollins
“I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.”
– Noam Chomsky
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
– Hal Borland
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
– Paul Theroux
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
– Tom Allen
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
– Pietro Aretino
“Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
– Yoko Ono
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
– Anne Bradstreet
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
– Sara Raasch
“Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is, the more studious we are.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes.”
– Søren Kierkegaard
“The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.”
– Bob Seger
“Summer bodies are made in the winter.”
– Krissy Turner
“Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do – or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.”
– Stanley Crawford
“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.”
– Henry Ford
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
– Ovid
Funny Winter Quotes for Work, Laughs and Less Stress
“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
– Bill Watterson
“My favorite winter activity is staying inside with my pajamas on. And if possible doing any meetings from home too, still in my pajamas.”
– Sarah Kelly
“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
“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.”
– Don Herold
“Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.”
– Sydney J. Harris
“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.”
– Sinclair Lewis
“I always give 100% at work: 10% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 22% Thursday, and 5% Friday.”
– Unknown
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
– Carl Reiner
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
– Edgar Bergen
“The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.”
– Dave Barry
“It was so cold I almost got married.”
– Shelley Winters
“Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.”
– Geraldo Rivera
“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
– Kenneth Grahame
“When I was young, I loved summer and hated winter. When I got older I loved winter and hated summer. Now that I’m even older, and wiser, I hate both summer and winter.”
– Jarod Kintz
“The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it.”
– Richard Brautigan
“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
– Bill Watterson
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
– Douglas Adams
“Winter blues are cured every time with a brisk walk home and getting under the covers on the sofa until bedtime. At least in my house.”
– Sandra Shea
“There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.”
– Bill Bowerman
“Every mile is two in the winter.”
– George Herbert
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost
“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome
Short Winter Quotes for Work and a Jolt of Energy
“The cold slows the world down, so now is a good opportunity to get ahead.”
– Joy Stevens
“Keep a little fire burning, however small, however hidden.”
– Cormac McCarthy
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
– Muhammad Ali
“Every winter has its spring.”
– H. Tuttle
“Wisdom comes with winters.”
– Oscar Wilde
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
– William Blake
“Light tomorrow with today.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Winter is nature’s sleep.”
– H.S. Jacobs
“When snow falls, nature listens.”
– Antoinette van Kleeff
“The very fact of snow is such an amazement.”
– Roger Ebert
“Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.”
– Debasish Mridha
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.”
– Anamika Mishra
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
– Robert Frost
“Snowfall rouses your inner child to dream and play once more.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Winter is the king of showmen.”
– Ogden Nash
“Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.”
– Andy Goldsworthy
“It’s winter. The air is crisp. Cold, yes, but somehow invigorating.”
– Eddie Cantor
Uplifting and Beautiful Winter Quotes for Work and Life
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?”
– John Steinbeck
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese proverb
“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.”
– Vivian White
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
– Aristotle
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
– Ali Smith
“Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.”
– Vesta M. Kelly
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
– Edith Sitwell
“Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
– George R.R. Martin
“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.”
– Marty Rubin
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anton Chekhov
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
– Victor Hugo
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
– Victor Hugo
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
– John Burroughs
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”
– Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder – no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”
– Candace Bushnell
“It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.”
– Elizabeth Camden
“There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special.”
– Carol Rifka Brunt
“Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow.”
– Edmund Hillary
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”
– Anthony J. D’Angelo
Powerful Winter Quotes for Work and Your Letter Board
“Winter doesn’t ask you to sprint. It simply asks you to keep the fire going until the spring rays of sun shine into your life again.”
– Joy Stevens
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller
“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius
“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.”
– Unknown
“Strength shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine.”
– Mario Fernandez
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
– Molière
“Paralyze resistance with persistence.”
– Woody Hayes
“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
– Frederick Douglass
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
– Will Rogers
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake.”
– Thomas Frey
“Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.”
– Alice Childress
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
– Anne Lamott
“Invest in rest.”
– Unknown
“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
“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.”
– Malcolm Forbes
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain
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