50 Inspirational Work Quotes to Kickstart Your Monday Motivation

"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

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

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

- Marilu Henner

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

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

- Chris Grosser

"All happiness depends on courage and work."

- Honoré de Balzac

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Edward Young

"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

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Sukhraj S. Dhillon

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

"It's not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts."

- Brian White

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"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

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Andrew Carnegie

"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

"Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else."

- Sara Blakely

"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

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

- Les Brown

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

- Will Durant

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

- Ken Poirot

"I like sunrises, Mondays, and new seasons. God seems to be saying, ‘with me, you can always start afresh.’"

- Ada Lum

"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow."

- Albert Einstein

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

- Colin Powell

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

- Isabella Koldras

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Audrey Carlan

"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

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

- Maria Robinson

"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

"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

"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

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

- Gabriel García Márquez

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Nido Qubein

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

- Maya Angelou

"She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails."

- Elizabeth Edwards

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Ralph Marston

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

- Farrah Gray

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Walt Disney

"Monday is for people with a mission."

- Cristina Imre

"Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks."

- Dr Roopleen

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

- Jack Canfield

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

- Joel A. Barker

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

- Farrah Gray Rogers

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

- Dolly Parton

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

- Earl Nightingale

"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

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life"

- Germany Kent

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"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

"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

"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

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

- Stephanie LaHart

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

- Colin Powell

"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

"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

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"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

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

"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

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

- John Wooden

"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

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

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"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

"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

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

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

- Richard Branson

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Ruth Gordon

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

- Mark Zuckerberg

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

- Charles Dickens

"Just say yes. Just say there's nothing holding you back."

- Zoe Sugg

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

- Cicely Tyson

"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

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar."

- Antonio Villaraigosa

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

- Herb Kelleher

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

- Henry Ford

"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Grant Cardone

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

- David Allen

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"A small shift in perspective and everything falls into place"

- Jessica Brody

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

- Joseph Barbera

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

- Dr. Henry Link

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

- Amy Poehler

"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

"Monday is for people with a mission. Those who favor vacations, not weekends."

- Cristina Imre

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

"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

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

- Tony Hsieh

"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

"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 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

"As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep."

- Akiroq Brost

"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

"If you love life do not waste time, for time is what life is made up of"

- Bruce Lee

"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

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

- Michael Altshuler

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

- Amelia Earhart

"I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify—and never miss an angle."

- Walt Disney

"You can’t beat yourself up because you’re taking chances on things."

- Coach Taylor, Friday Night Lights

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

- John Berryman

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Mme Du Deffand

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Michelle Duval

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"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

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Rumi

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

- Toni Morrison

"Do not try to be someone else. You're not living your life for somebody else; you're living your life for yourself."

- Zendaya

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"It's never too late to be what you might've been."

- George Eliot

"When you believe in yourself and follow your own path, you can accomplish anything."

- Malik Ducard

"We can be whatever we have the courage to see."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"If you want to be productive, you need to be selective."

- Tim Ferriss

"A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start."

- Rand Fishkin

"The key to productivity is to focus on one task at a time."

- Gary Keller

"Productivity is not an accident. It is always the result of commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."

- Paul J. Meyer

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"Don't be busy; be productive. Don't just get through the day; get something from the day."

- Tony Robbins

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

- LeBron James

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

- Stephen King

"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

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Janine Allis

"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

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Bryant McGill

"Productivity is not about working more hours, it's about working smarter."

- Elon Musk

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

- Scott Belsky

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Wayne Dyer

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Winston Churchill

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"Success begins with believing in yourself."

- Sam Kerr

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"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

"I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."

- Jeff Bezos

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

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

- Jessica Herrin

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"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

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

- Robert Kiyosaki

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Michelle Obama

"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

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Ken Poirot

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Olin Miller

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

- Dejan Stojanovic

"Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

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

- George S. Patton

"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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

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

- Roger Staubach

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

- Rosa Parks

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Henry Link

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

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

- Arnold Glasow

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Ellen Degeneres

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

- Don Marquis

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Chinese Proverb

"Spend 80% of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday."

- Brian Tracy

"Friday is a day to be happy and thankful for the week that was. A day to look forward to the weekend with a smile."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Make each day of the week like Friday and your life will take on new enthusiasm."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Friday is a day to finish your goals for the week. It is a day to celebrate that which you set out to accomplish at the beginning of the week."

- Byron Pulsifer

"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

"I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action."

- Mae Jemison

"There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world."

- Phil Libin

"It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

- Jules Renard

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

- Zoe Foster Blake

"Lost time is never found again."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Don't be afraid to delegate."

- Richard Branson

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

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

- Arlyn Davich

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently."

- Warren Buffet

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

- Ryan Freitas

"[My biggest mistake is probably] weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."

- Elon Musk

"The only sustainable way to win is to enable others."

- Boyong Ma

"We need to be bold and ambitious in our thinking about how we can solve the world's problems."

- Elon Musk

"I believe that every child deserves the opportunity to succeed, regardless of their background."

- Mark Zuckerberg

"I believe that business is the greatest platform for change."

- Blake Mycoskie

"Monday Morning Blues? Why not change the color of your Monday to yellow and brighten up the coming week?"

- Kanika Saxena

"Age should not limit your dreams. The world is waiting for your magic."

- Nikhil Kamath

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

- Anita Roddick

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

- Karen Lamb

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Lisa Messenger

"Friday is like a green light; you speed up until after work and start to slow down once the light turns yellow."

- El Fuego

"Without the weekend, where would the week be?"

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"You don’t need a new year to make a change. All you need is a Monday."

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

"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."

- Unknown

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

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

- Unknown

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

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

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

"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."

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

"A positive mindset attracts positive outcomes."

"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."

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

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."

"Friday is the golden child of the weekdays. The superhero of the workweek. The welcome wagon to the weekend."