Start Your Week Right: A Powerful Collection of Inspirational Monday Quotes and Images

"Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow."

- Jerry Spinelli

"Every day brings new choices."

- Martha Beck

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon."

- Charles M. Schulz

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness, not in another place but this place ... not for another hour, but this hour."

- Walt Whitman

"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll

"The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need."

- Ann Richards

"Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory."

- Betty Smith

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."

- Sylvia Plath

"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."

- Ashley Montagu

"In this world, all — men, women, and kings — must live for the present."

- Alexandre Dumas

"While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed."

- Mattie Stepanek

"There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments."

- C.S. Lewis

"In every moment the past is born and the present flows into the future, taking the moment that already passed."

- Dejan Stojanovic

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in."

- Virginia Woolf

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

- Emily Dickinson

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

"Okay, it’s Monday, but who said Mondays have to suck? Be a rebel and have a great day anyway."

- Kimberly Jiménez

"Mondays are the start of the work week, which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dwek

"You are in control. Never allow your Monday to be manic."

- Andrea L’Artiste

"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

"I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and the spirit."

- Helena Rubenstein

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at."

- Bruce Lee

"All you need is the plan, the road map and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale

"I have always thought the only genius that’s worth anything is the genius for hard work."

- Kathleen Winsor

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"That’s what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."

- Joseph Barbera

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"You have to be where you are to get where you need to go."

- Amy Poehler

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Monday is for people with a mission."

- Cristina Imre

"Every morning, you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life."

- Ken Poirot

"Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have."

- Lemony Snicket

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

- Ralph Marston

"Don’t count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."

- Joel A. Barker

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

- Robert Kennedy

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one!"

- Dolly Parton

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’"

- George Bernard Shaw

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

- Booker T. Washington

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."

- Rosa Parks

"Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you."

- Beyoncé

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise."

- Maya Angelou

"We must travel in the direction of our fear."

- John Berryman

"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action."

- Dr. Henry Link

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen."

- Sukhraj S. Dhillon

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself."

- Beyoncé

"I have learned not to allow rejection to move me."

- Cicely Tyson

"Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax."

- Bryant McGill

"Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world."

- Jack Layton

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results."

- Willie Nelson

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."

- Nicholas Murray Butler

"Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence."

- Bruce Lee

"If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"Whatever you give out in life is what you receive back in life. Give positivity, you receive back positivity; give negativity, you receive back negativity."

- Rhonda Byrne

"Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."

- Joseph Campbell

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."

- Daphne du Maurier

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."

- Ruth Gordon

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!’"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed."

- E. Jean Carroll

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious effort."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"Don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises; and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation."

- Jacob Bronowski

"The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult."

- Mme Du Deffand

"If you know anything about me, you know that my life’s taken a few unexpected curves and crashes along the way. But hey, at least I can say I took the scenic route!"

- Naomi Judd

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- Toni Morrison

"However, the Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."

- Olin Miller

"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

"May your coffee be strong and your Mondays be short."

"This is your Monday morning reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you."

"It’s Monday. Get a new perspective. Whatever obstacle you’re facing — it’s not permanent."

"I really need a day in between Sunday and Monday."