Conquer the Week Ahead: 451 Empowering Monday Motivation Quotes

Read this collection of Monday motivation quotes to start your week with the right energy.

Monday isn’t about “another day, another dollar.”

Monday is another day of your life that you can use to make progress.

Instead of looking at it as something you must drag yourself through, try applying these motivational quotes from great thinkers, historical figures, and famous people.

Let us know your favorite Monday quote in the comment section below.

What are the benefits of reading these Monday quotes?

Sometimes it feels like we’re programmed to hate Monday.

It’s hard to stay motivated on Monday, especially if you approach it from a negative mindset like our weekend fun or relaxation ends, and now it’s back to “real life.”

Here are a few things you need to understand about Monday:

• It’s part of our real life
• Monday isn’t the problem
• Monday isn’t an interruption

In fact, Monday is another blessing and a chance to pick up where we left off!

These Monday motivation quotes will help you reframe your thoughts.

Every fresh start to the week is another opportunity to learn new things and apply what we have already learned.

Every day is a chance to have the best day

Whichever memories you have from the weekend, which we are sure you posted on Facebook, say goodbye to them all and take advantage of the start of a new week.

Need an extra jolt?

Try these Monday motivation quotes to get you pumped up!

Monday motivation quotes to keep you going all week

1. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

2. “The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” – Benjamin Mays

3. “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb

4. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

5. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein

6. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield

7. “If not us, who? If not now, when?” – John F. Kennedy

8. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine

Monday motivation quotes to boost your spirits

9. “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

10. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

11. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

12. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg

13. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

14. “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.”― Charlie Chaplin

15. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

16. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

17. “It’s not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.” – Brian White

18. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser

19. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

20. “Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.” – Will Rogers

21. “The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin

22. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

23. “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson

24. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks

25. “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi

26. “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”― Moliere

27. “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” – Gore Vidal

28. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

29. “Life offers so many great choices, all you have to do is to see them.” – Unknown

30. “Life offers you so many doors, it is up to you which to open and which one to close.” – Unknown

The best Monday motivation quotes and sayings

31. “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi

32. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

33. “Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”― Dale Carnegie

34. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

35. “It’s Monday… time to motivate and make dreams and goals happen. Let’s go!” – Heather Stillufsen

36. “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso

37. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

38. “The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.” – Joel Osteen

39. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

40. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” …so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.” – Leo Tolstoy

Monday motivation quotes that will inspire you to succeed

41. “Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.”
— Marie Forleo

42. “A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.” – Arthur Golden

43. “There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.” – Joel Osteen

44. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

45. “Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” – Hal Borland

46. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa

47. “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

48. “Work to become, not to acquire.” – Elbert Hubbard

49. “Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.” – Abraham Lincoln

50. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

Monday motivation quotes to get you through the week

51. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

52. “Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah

53. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde

54. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

55. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

56. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. ” – Les Brown

57. “I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.” – Martha Stewart

58. “There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach

59. “The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” – Napoleon Hill

60. “A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee

Monday Inspiration quotes about productivity

61. “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today.” – Nolan Bushnell

62. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee

63. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” – Peter Drucker

64. “It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.” – Tony Robbins

65. “Life is too complicated not to be orderly.” – Martha Stewart

67. “Why do anything unless it is going to be great?” – Peter Block

68. “The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.” – Dennis Waitley

69. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey

70. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King

Monday quotes for endless motivation

71. If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” – David Allen

72. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

73. “Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.” – Bruce Lee

74. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

75. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

76. “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar

77. “It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.” – Nathan W. Morris

78. “If you have time to whine then you have time to find a solution.” – Dee Dee Artner

79. “Great acts are made up of small deeds.” – Lao Tzu

80. “To find meaning in life is to know your mission.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

Monday motivation quotes for work

81. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell

82. “Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.” ―Cheryl Strayed

83. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson

84. “You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.” — Kesha

85. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” –
Dale Carnegie

86. “No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.” – Jonathan Sacks

87. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius

88. “Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top.” – Paul Coffey

89. “Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.” – Tyler Perry

90. “Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.” – Luther Campbell

91. “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” –
Eva Young

92. “Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.” – Haile Gebrselassie

Wise Monday motivation quotes

93. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

94. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” —Henry Ford

95. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho

96. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

97. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” —Charles Dickens

98. “Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.” – Patrick Suskind

99. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” — Wayne Gretzky

100. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

101. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” —Charles Kingsleigh

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Monday quotes to inspire success

102. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder

103. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”― Theodore Roosevelt

104. “There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.” – Anthony Robbins

105. “Make each day your masterpiece.”– John Wooden

106. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.

107. “You will never plow a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”— Irish Proverb

108. “Keep going because you need to be the person who will get through this.”― Lidia Longorio

109. “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”– Martin Luther King Jr.

110. “Impossible is just an opinion.” – Paulo Coelho

Other motivational Monday quotes

111. A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.”– Frederick Douglass

112. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

113. “A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.”– Colin Powell

114. “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” – Thomas Carlyle

115. “The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!”– Marvin Phillips

116. “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

117. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”– Mark Twain

118. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

119. “Don’t work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.”– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

120. “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” – Tricia Cunnigham

Monday quotes to elevate your week

121. “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”– Leo Buscaglia

122. “The only limits you have are the limits you believe.” – Wayne Dyer

123. “It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.” – Robert H. Schuller

124. “You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.” –John Wanamaker

125. “If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” – Les Brown

126. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson

127. “Begin the week with momentum and you’ll look back with great satisfaction on all you achieved.” – Skip Prichard

128. “If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.” — Jen Sincero

129. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso

130. “The most effective way to do is to do it.” — Amelia Earhart

Monday motivation quotes to empower you

131. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

132. “A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.” –Henry Kissinger

133. “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” – Mae Jemison

134. “Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.” –Henry Ford

135. “It’s natural to want to walk the path of least effort, but the path of least effort bears bitter fruits.” – Sayed H Fatimi

136. “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” – Ben Hogan

137. “Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed.” – Bethany Hamilton

138. “Don’t give it five minutes if you’re not going to give it five years.”— Meghan Markle

139. “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” –Muhammad Ali

140. “Done is better than perfect.”— Sheryl Sandberg

Monday morning quotes to get your week started

141. “It always seems bad at first, but then I find a way…” – Samurai Jack

142. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” – Vincent Van Gogh

143. “If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.” – Catherine Pulsifier

144. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer

145. “Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” – Isabelle Lafleche

146. “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” – Oscar Wilde

147. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk

148. “Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit.” – Kamari aka Lyrikal

149. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”― Abraham Lincoln

150. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

Monday motivation quotes to inspire success

151. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa

152. “Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems.”– Paul J. Meyer

153. “By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own.”– Mark Victor Hansen

154. “An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.” – Thomas Fuller

155. “Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.” – William J. Bennett

156. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”– John Buchan

157. “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”– Pearl Buck

158. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”– Stephen Covey

159. “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”– Mario Andretti

160. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”– Norman Vincent Peale

Monday motivation quotes to elevate your mind

161. “Life is an adventure; we get out of it what we put into it.” – Richard Daly

162. “Be driven to succeed or get run over.”― Rob Liano

163. “You are rewarded in this world based on the value that you give to it.” – Jamie Alderton

164. “You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” – Paolo Coehlo

165. “I believe the first step in any success-sports, work, a service group, whatever-is showing up.” – David DeNotaris

166. “This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen.” – Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

167. “Only your determination and your strong desire will move you forward.”― Aurora Berill

168. “Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.” — Muhammad Ali

169. “Take a new look at your present ‘impossible.’ Consider positive ways to handle it.” – Norman Vincent Peale

170. “Life is your seesaw. You may not stay balanced long, but you can aim for a high after every low.”― Sanita Belgrave

Monday motivation quotes to elevate your perspective

171. “You can win a lot in life just by being the last one to give up.” – James Clear

172. “You might not get the outcome you want in life, but you can become one of the few that put in the work.” – Shane Parrish

173. “You are never going to feel ready. Start anyways.” – Mel Robbins

174. “Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” – Norman Ralph Augustine

175. “Focus on signal over noise. Don’t waste time on stuff that doesn’t actually make things better.” – Elon Musk

176. “How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself.” – Epictetus

177. “Mondays are the start of the workweek which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!” – David Dweck

178. “Here’s the only productivity tip you’ll ever need: do the most important thing first each day. Sounds simple. No one does it.” – James Clear

179. “By nature we are wise, kind, powerful, fearless, and absolutely unlimited.” – Byron Katie

180. “We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.” – Theodore Roosevelt

If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of Friday quotes to help you reflect on an amazing week.

Monday motivation quotes to help you succeed

181. “Public opinions are not your reality… Stay focused on your dream.”― Ekere Marshal

182. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

183. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs

184. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

185. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

186. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein

187. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer

188. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak

189. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link

190. “To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Gafka

Monday morning quotes for extra motivation for the week

191. “Do what you can, with all you have, wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

192. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden

193. “Knowing is not enough we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

194. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein

195. “The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

196. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill

197. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

198. “If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” – T. Harv Eker

199. “The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!” – Brian Tracy

200. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein

Monday motivation quotes that will make your day wonderful

201. “Your attitude, more than anything, will influence your effectiveness.” – Pat Gelsinger

202. “Manifest the best and forget the rest.”― Rob Liano

203. “Success comes with the attitude of success filled in one’s mind and
so comes failure with the attitude for failure in the mind.” – Mahesh Jethmalani

204. “You should not let setbacks crush your spirit.”― Stanley T. Crawford

205. “The difference between winners and ordinary people is winners follow through despite fear while others just dream and take no action.” – Calvin K. Lee

206. “Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.” – Billy Bowerman

207. “Life is about making an impact, changing things and leaving things better than you found them.” – Munmi Sarma

208. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill

209. “When we train our minds to radiate positive view points, we will see positive results in our lives.” – John Vaulkner

210. Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.” – Swami Vivekananda

More Monday motivation quotes and sayings to start the week

211. “Recently I realized that I have already lived more of my life than what I have left, and somehow that made me even more determined than ever to make the most of my time.” –
Joyce Meyer

212. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert Schuller

213. “You gotta decide to be happy. Where you wanna live. What you wanna drive. You have to make a decision!” – Eric Thomas

214. “We are limited, but we can push back the borders of our limitations.” – Stephen R. Covey

215. “A champion is someone who does not settle for that day’s practice, that day’s competition, that day’s performance. They are always striving to be better. They don’t live in the past.” – Briana Scurry

216. “I have a feeling the difference between success and and catastrophe rides on my ability to guess the right one.” ― Shannon

217. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” –
Dr. Seuss

218. “I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.” – Jewish proverb

219. “I believe we are all capable of ‘achieving greatness,’ but the problem is that most of us don’t want to do the work.” – Herby Fabius

220. “The less you respond to negative people, the more positive your life will become.” – Paulo Coelho

Monday motivation quotes to beat the Sunday Scaries

221. “Your greatest power is your ability to make paradigm shifts.”― Sanita Belgrave

222. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

223. “People will care about your success, not your struggles.”― Brajesh Kumar Singh

224. “My whole career has been an act of revenge.” – Ruby Wax

225. “You need a plan for yourself, just like you need a plan for a business.” – Brenda Barnes

226. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

227. “Don’t let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You’ve got to set a high bar.” — Antonio Villaraigosa

228. “Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on.” — Lady Gaga

229. “Candy is nature’s way of making up for Mondays.” — Rebecca Gober

230. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” — Shonda Rhimes

Monday motivation quotes for a great week

221. “Hey, I know it’s Monday. But it’s also a new day and a new week. And in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.” – Michael Ely

222. “Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier and healthier life.” – Germany Kent

223. “Believe on Monday the way you believe on Sunday.” – Rita Schiano

224. “There is always a miracle at the dawn of Monday; I’m alive.” – Miracle

225. “Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow.” – Jerry Spinelli

226. “Monday, the start of a new week, with brand-new opportunities to enjoy all that life has to offer.” – Audrey Carlan

227. “I must break the routines and become a person who becomes productive every Monday. I must break the mindset of unhappiness and turn myself into a happy magnet for Mondays.” – Leggy Saul

228. “Every day brings new choices.” – Martha Beck

229. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

230. “Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life.” – Ken Poirot

Funny Monday motivation quotes

231. “Mondays are mundane, like Tuesdays minus 24 hours.” – Jarod Kintz

232. “So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.” — Julio Alexi Genao

233. “You make me feel Monday is Saturday.” – Avijeet Das

234. “You are in control. Never allow your Monday to be manic.” — Andrea L’Artiste

235. “What about Monday? That could be the one day we look at things the same way and wear funny shoes.” – Kevin Dalton

236. “Monday morning you sure look fine.” — Lindsey Buckingham

237. “It’s just another manic Monday. I wish it was Sunday. ‘Cause, that’s my fun day. My, I don’t have to run day.” – Prince Rogers Nelson

238. “Okay, it’s Monday but who said Mondays have to suck? Be a rebel and have a great day anyway.” — Kimberly Jiménez

239. “With the right mindset, you can be just as happy on a Monday as you are on a Friday.” –Joel Osteen

240. “Let the wisdom of Monday show you why we have weekends.” – Anthony T. Hincks

Monday quotes to motivate you for however you choose to spend the day

241. “Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.” — Yogi Berra

242. “Monday night, there ain’t a better time to showcase your talent.” — Ed Reed

243. “When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” — Ella Woodward

244. “A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn’t sleep on Monday nights.” — Alan Jay Lerner

245. “What do sharks do on Monday mornings? They get up and start biting. That’s me.” — Gemma Collins

246. “On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.” — H. Allen Smith

247. “I do an hour of cardio every day without fail, and I lift on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.” — Skip Bayless

248. “No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become “Successful.”― Jaymin Shah

249. “You don’t want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I’ve done later in the week.” — Ike Barinholtz

250. “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.” — Audrey Hepburn

Monday motivation quotes to help you regardless of what kind of Monday you are having

251. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” — H. G. Wells

252. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston

253. “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” — James Dean

254. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” — Abraham Lincoln

255. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” — Dr. Seuss

256. “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” — Jack Ma

257. “Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” — Bil Keane

258. “Spread love everywhere you go.” — Mother Teresa

259. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

260. “Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.’ – A.C. Benson

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261. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

262. “You must wake up in the morning thinking of things you could change in and about your life on a daily basis.”― Sunday Adelaja

263. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius

264. “When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.”― Sydney Smith

265. “For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.”― Amit Ray

266. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”– Meister Eckhart

267. “In the morning, wonder and be generous like the sun. In the evening, meditate and be kind like the moon.”― Debasish Mridha

268. “Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” – Yoko Ono

269. “When you wake up every morning, let thanksgiving be your first thought.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

270. “Every morning is a new arrival.” – Rumi

Monday Motivation Quotes To Beat Monday Blues

271. “If you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilities on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday!” ― Aiden Wilson Tozer

272. “I can confirm, although I am not certain, that we have very good reason to believe that tomorrow is Monday.” ― Joseph Ole Lenku

273. “I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin’ than any other day in the week, because ‘twould be a whole week before you’d have another one!” ― Eleanor Porter

274. “I hate Sunday, I can’t wait for Monday so I can go back to work again.” ― Ingrid Bergman

275. “I don’t know about you, but I like to fall in love on Mondays. This way if things go south right away you still have the weekend.” ― Dov Davidoff

276. “Don’t chase the money… chase the passion. Because that’s what is going to keep you happy and motivated and jumping out of that bed Monday morning.” ― Tyra Banks

277. “Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.” ― Yani Tseng

278. “It’s a great day for America, everybody! It’s Monday, woo.” ― Craig Ferguson

279. “I fight, knock them out, have some sex, and Monday I’m back to hitting bags and kicking ass.” ― Adrien Broner

280. “It is an awful thing to say, but if I was a Rover worker, I would not be pinning my hopes on a deal by next Monday, I’d be looking for a new job.” ― Jeff Randall

281. “Even the best weeks start with monday.” ― Nice Peter

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282. “On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire.” — Larry D. Turner

283. “The challenge of every Monday is to maintain the same vitality in each and every day of the week.” — Byron Pulsifer

284. “I said that the issue is not Monday. The issue is action without motivation.” — Denny Dey

285. “It’s time to read just your mind, Monday mornings no longer have to be a dreaded moment in your life.” — Funké Baffour

285. “You master Monday! You start winning the day! You start winning the week! Then the month! Then the year!” —  Eric Thomas

287. “Monday would be the start of a whole new chapter in our lives.” — Rob French

288. “If you have the right mind-set, you can be just as happy on Monday as you are on Friday.” — Joel Osteen

289. “Don’t over stress that it’s a Monday, rather think it’s a great day to start a crisp week.” — Samreen Kausar

290. “Mondays don’t have to be terrible; make them magical instead!” — Kate Hudson

291. “If Mondays were like Sundays nothing would ever get done.” — Catherine Pulsifer

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292. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

293. “I don’t know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher

294. “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight

295. “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

296. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson

297. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – William Durant

298. “Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins

299. “The first one gets the oyster, the second gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie

300. “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” – Seth Godin

301. “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey

Monday Motivation Quotes for an Inspiring Start to the Week

302. “Life is a fairytale starring you. You have the power to write your own story and be the hero of it, too.” — Joelle Speranza

303. “Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” — Deep Roy

304. “Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” — Ken Poirot

305. “Monday is for people with a mission. Those who favor vacations, not weekends.” — Cristina Imre

306. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers

307. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” — Dalai Lama

308. “What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm.” — Byron Pulsifer

309. “If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.” — Elon Musk

310. “Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.” — Eckhart Toll

311. “It’s a Monday morning; a new week, a new day and a new morning to start fresh and achieve your goals.” — Invajy

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312. “The biggest thrill wasn’t in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.” —  Art Rooney

313. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” — Maria Robinson

314. “The beginning is always today.” — Mary Shelley

315. “I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.” — Miles Davis

316. “When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it’s Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.” — Edmond Mbiaka

317. “Stop making excuses, you’re the only one stopping you.” — Issa Rae

317. “Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.” — Stephanie LaHart

319. “We only have one life, and it is very precious, and there’s a lot we can do, and there’s a lot we should do.” — Selena Gomez

320. “Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment.” — Marianne Cantwell

321. “There are many opportunities in every single day, and Monday is the perfect day to seize them all.” — Isabella Koldras

Monday Motivation Quotes To Encourage You To Tackle The Week

322. “For me, Monday represents a fresh start to the week. It is the day where the slate from the previous week is wiped clean. It is a day of new beginnings.” — Allen Smith

323. “Wake up on Monday and start your day with a lot of awesomeness and you will get happiness back.” — Jim Butcher

324. “Good things don’t come to those who wait. Good things come to those who pursue the goals and dreams they believe in…Happy Monday!” — Venus Rivers

325.  “Your life goal should be to make Monday the best day of the week.” ― Trevor Carss

326. “Magical Monday is an amalgamation of passion, perseverance and performance.”

― Subhashree Jena

327. “Monday, Monday, so good to me; Monday morning, it was all I hoped it would be.” — John Phillips

328.“Nothing is permanent including the obstacle you’re facing. It’s Monday. Get a new perspective and overcome that.” —  Invajy

329. “Monday is such a wonderful day. You can start new leaving behind the past week disappointments.” — Invajy

330.“The awfulness of Monday mornings is the world’s greatest common denominator. To the millionaire and the coolie it is the same, because there can be nothing worse.” ― Kenneth Fearing

331. “Don’t let a day of the week have so much power over your happiness. Happy Monday!” ― Andrea L’Artiste

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332. “Monday is the perfect day to start something new.” ― Eric Thomas

333. “Monday is a new beginning. Treat it that way.” ― Dwayne Johnson

334. Monday is a new opportunity to shine.” ― Beyonce

335. Monday is a new day and a new chance to make your dreams come true.” ― Will Smith

336. “Monday is the day to start living your best life.” ― Tony Robbins

337. “Monday is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” ― Brad Paisley

338. “Monday is the day to set your intentions for the week.” ― Deepak Chopra

339. “Monday is the beginning of a new week, a new chance to be better, do better, and be the best version of yourself.” ― Joel Osteen

340. “Monday is the day to make things happen.” ― Elon Musk

341. “Monday: A fresh start. It’s a new chapter in your story. Embrace it.” ― Oprah Winfrey

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342. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light” — Aristotle

343. “The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day.” ― Noel DeJesus

344. “Each new day offers the chance to start afresh, to achieve those things you most desires.” ― Steven Redhead

345. “Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.” ― Ben Zobrist

346. “Celebrate the new day with shouts of praise, love, and grace and with a beautiful smile upon your face.” ― Caroline Naoroji.

347. “Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.” ― Doe Zantamata.

348. “Every single day is an opportunity for you to start anew; I call this my ’24 – hour Reset Button.’” ― Tamara Tilleman.

349. “Every day brings you a chance to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.” ― Oprah Winfrey

350. “Never look back reminiscing on yesterday, smile for the future, tomorrow’s a good day.” ― Zayn Malik

351.”Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” ― Buddha

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352. “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” — Camilla Eyring Kimball

353. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs

354. “I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

355. “Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.” — Kevin Kruse

356. “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” — Zig Ziglar

357. “How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?” — Anthony Robbins

358. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” — Charles Swindoll

359. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau 

‍360. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

361. “Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan

Monday Motivation Quotes Quotes to Encourage Us To Make Use of Our Time

362. “Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.” — John Wooden

363. “You will never find time for anything. You must make it.” — Charles Buxton. M

364. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” — Henry David Thoreau

365. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” — Stephen R. Covey

366. “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” — Winston Churchill

367. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” — Jim Rohn

368. “Better to be three hours too soon, than a minute too late.” — William Shakespeare

369. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” — Mother Teresa

370. “Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” — Lord Chesterfield

371. “He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.” — Dante

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372. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein

373. “Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.” — Christopher Markus

374. “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.” — Seneca

375. “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

376. “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.” — Voltaire

377. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius

378. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” — Victor Frankl

379. “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” — Baruch Spinoza

380.“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” — Albert Einstein

381. “Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward .” — Søren Kierkegaard

Monday Motivation Quotes To Overcome Your Fears

382. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett

383. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

384. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” — Carol Burnett

385. “In the end, when it’s over, all that matters is what you’ve done.” — Alexander the Great

386. “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.” — Theodore Roosevelt

387. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Michael Altshuler

388. “Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.” — Nicole Kidman

389.”You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” — Oprah Winfrey

390. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — Malala Yousafzai

391. “At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.” — Dr. Phil

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392. “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.” ― Michelle Obama

393. “Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.” ― David Gemmell

394. “Don’t entrust your future on others’ hands. Rather make decisions by yourself with the help of God’s guidance. Hold your beliefs so tight and never let go of them!” ― Hark Herald

395. “It’s not about making the right choice. It’s about making a choice and making it right.” ― J.R. Rim

396.“Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.” ― MJ DeMarco

397. “Urgency and despair don’t get along well.” ― N.K. Jemisin

398.“High performers not only practice deliberately, they think deliberately.” ― Richard Young

399. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ― Oprah Winfrey

400. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy

401. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” — Amelia Earhart

Monday Motivation Quotes To Rise Above the Blues

402. “Monday Morning Blues? Why not change the color of your Monday to yellow and brighten up the coming week?” — Kanika Saxena

403. “Each day is filled with promise, potential and possibility.” ― Tony Curl

404. “Each sunrise brings a new day with new hopes for a new beginning.” ― Debasish Mridha

405. “Every new day comes with a new joy, a new plan and a new life, all to be directed by the same old God! You need a new dream, a new passion and a new hope to pursue your old destiny!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

406. “Absolutely, I think every day is a new day, every day is a new opportunity, and every day is a new chance.” ― Jennifer Winget

407. “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” — J. B. Priestley

408. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” — Olin Miller

409. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” —  Margaret Thatcher

410. “Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.” — Sukhraj S. Dhillon

411. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein

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412. “On the other side of this darkness, a new day will slowly dawn.” ― Corban Addison

413. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

414. “Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.” ― Langston Hughes

415. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” ― Roy T. Bennett

416. “What’s meant to be will always find a way” ― Trisha Yearwood

417. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou

418. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” ― Socrates

419. “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” ― Saul Bellow

420. “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” ― Roy T. Bennett

421. “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

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422. “Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up & chase them.” — Kristin

423. “Coming to you this Monday morning to remind you how awesome you are, and that you my darling… matter. After all, there’s only one of you in the whole world. Don’t waste one second trying to be like anyone else.” — Sara Blakely

424. “This has been such a Monday! I wish I stayed in bed, and I wish that yesterday had never happened.” — Lisa Mantchev

425. “There are no miracles on Mondays.” — Amy Neftzger

426. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale

427. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible” — Tony Robbins

428. “You were hired because you met expectations, you will be promoted if you can exceed them.” — SajiIjiyemi

429. “Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” — Lou Holtz

430. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

431. “Light tomorrow with today.” — Elizabeth Barrett

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432. “Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” — Joseph Barbara

433. “Embrace the pain to inherit the gain.” — Habeeb Akande

434. “Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.” — Helena Rubinstein

435. “If you hit the target every time, it’s too near or too big.” — Tom Hirshfield

436. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” — David Brinkley

437. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent van Gogh

438. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” — Dale Carnegie

439. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

440. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” — Joseph Kennedy

441. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” — Les Brown

442. “Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.” — Eckhart Tolle

443. “You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.” — Amy Poehler

444. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” — Earl Nightingale

445. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” — Caterina Fake

446. “Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you.” — Beyoncé

447. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Ziglar

448. “Don’t ask if your dream is crazy, ask if it’s crazy enough.” — Lena Waithe

449. “On my own I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, I’ll create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.” — Oprah Winfrey

450. “If you want to be successful in this world, you have to follow your passion, not a paycheck.” — Jen Welter

451. “Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen — that stillness becomes radiance.” — Morgan Freeman

What do you think about these Monday motivation quotes?

Let’s face it—there are days when it feels like you are close to giving up.

Despite the progress you may have made, you will come to a point of burnout.

When a long week has left you discouraged, try not to be too stressed.

There is always time to re-center yourself and find inspiration to start a constructive and energetic mentality.

Use these Monday motivation quotes to prepare you for the greatness that lies ahead.

Make it a happy Monday!

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