Kickstart Your Week: 50 Inspirational Quotes for Monday Motivation

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

- Jim Rohn

"Don't ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility."

- Michelle Obama

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- Ralph Marston

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

- Rosa Parks

"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Sukhraj S. Dhillon

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"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

"Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Walt Disney

"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

"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

"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

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

- Jerry Spinelli

"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 Embiaka

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."

- John Wooden

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

- Andrea L’Artiste

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"There are many opportunities in every single day, and Monday is the perfect day to seize them all."

- Isabella Koldras

"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

"Every day, think as you wake up: Today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it."

- Dalai Lama XIV

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Ken Poirot

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are."

- Stephanie LaHart

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Believe on Monday the way you believe on Sunday."

- Rita Schiano

"Believe you can, and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Kimberly Jiménez

"Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want."

- Ken Poirot

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

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

- David Dweck

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

"If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her 18th birthday, you can get out of bed."

- E. Jean Carroll

"I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it."

- Estée Lauder

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Kristin, Sophisticated Gal

"All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"Every day brings new choices."

- Martha Beck

"The most effective way to do is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

"The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible."

- Joel Brown

"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."

- Steve Jobs

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"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

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action."

- Tony Robbins

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Dolly Parton

"Monday, the start of a new week, with brand-new opportunities to enjoy all that life has to offer."

- Audrey Carlan

"I love Mondays because it's the start of a new week with new opportunities. I'm excited to see what the week brings!"

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Melody Beattie

"If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

"Success begins with believing in yourself."

- Sam Kerr

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Monday is for people with a mission."

- Cristina Imre

"I know it’s Monday, but it’s also a new day, a new week — and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen."

- Michael Ealy

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it."

- Groucho Marx

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose."

- Mary Pickford

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

- Ayn Rand

"You don't achieve success by taking it easy or working on it later. You achieve it through persistence and hard work."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

- George S. Patton

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

- Dale Carnegie

"A year from now you may wish you had started today."

- Karen Lamb

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

- Jack Canfield

"Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you."

- Albert Einstein

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don't be afraid to stand out and be different. Your uniqueness is your greatest strength."

- Janine Allis

"Use your fear, it can take you to the place where you store your courage."

- Amelia Earhart

"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear."

- Arianna Huffington

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal--a commitment to excellence--that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

- Mario Andretti

"There’s no committee that says, ‘This is the type of person who can change the world – and you can’t.’ Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you’re going to do it."

- Adora Svitak

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

- Joel A. Barker

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

"Greatness is defined by how much you want to put into what you do."

- LeBron James

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

- Farrah Gray Rogers

"The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender."

- David Allen

"The question I ask myself like almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'"

- Mark Zuckerberg

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

- Henry Ford

"Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you."

- Tony Hsieh

"Don't wait for opportunity. Create it."

- Chris Grosser

"The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there."

- Vince Lombardi

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"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 which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

- Zig Ziglar

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practise any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

"In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

- George Herbert

"The key to success is to be authentic and true to yourself."

- Zoe Foster Blake

"Success is not about being the best; it's about always getting better."

- Scott Belsky

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

- Ann Richards

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

- Maria Robinson

"This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen."

- Gabriel García Márquez

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

- Amy Poehler

"find something creative to do with my life."

- Miles Davis

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

- Michael Altshuler

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John R. Wooden

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

- Robert Schuller

"There is no traffic jam along the extra mile."

- Roger Staubach

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"Even the best weeks start with Monday."

- Nice Peter

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

- Bryant McGill

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Dejan Stojanovic

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Henry Ford

"What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm."

- Byron Pulsifer

"You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

"If you don’t have time for the small things, you won’t have time for the big things."

- Richard Branson

"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

"Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life."

- Grant Cardone

"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Maya Angelou

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

- Dolly Parton

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now."

- Chinese Proverb

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started."

- Marilu Henner

"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind."

- Napoleon Hill

"The plan is to fan this spark into a flame."

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

"You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end."

- Jessica Herrin

"The first step forward is to admit your fear, then you can take the next step to conquer it."

- Ken Poirot

"Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them."

- Vaibhav Shah

"When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day."

- Ella Woodward

"Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career."

- Ryan Freitas

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Yesterday is ashes, tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly."

- Old Eskimo Proverb

"You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Charles Dickens

"If money is your first thought when you wake up, you need to dream bigger."

- Lisa Messenger

"It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way."

- Henry Link

"We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things."

- Herb Kelleher

"It isn’t possible to create anything of scale beyond one person without first recognizing the need and then asking for help."

- Michelle Duval

"My point is life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The piña and the colada."

- Ellen Degeneres

"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"

- Steve Jobs

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."

- Anita Roddick

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."

- Mother Teresa

"Trust your idea enough to know that it can challenge the status quo."

- Arlyn Davich

"When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be."

- Lao Tzu

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied."

- Arnold Glasow

"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."

- Oscar Wilde

"Work is not only a means of earning a living: it is also a place where we express ourselves, feel useful, and learn the great lesson of concreteness, which helps keep the spiritual life from becoming spiritualism."

- Pope Francis

"Know that something good will always happen."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."

- Rumi

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

- Don Marquis

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."

- Galatians 6:9

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

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

"You don’t need a New Year to make a change. All you need is a Monday."

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

"The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands."

"The worst Monday is the one that gets wasted for nothing."

"A positive mindset attracts positive outcomes."

"Mondays are tough only for those people, who don’t know how to spend them cheerfully. Get up and have fun today!"

"Monday is a state of mind."

"Perform your obligatory duties, because action is indeed better than inaction."

"If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, concentrate the mind on the present."

"There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path."

"And never say of anything, 'Indeed, I will do that tomorrow,' Except [when adding], 'If Allah wills.'"

"The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty."

"She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks."