Thursday Inspiration: A Powerful Collection of Work Quotes to Finish Strong

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Effort is what is required on Thursday to finish all that needs to be done."

- Kate Summers

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

- Winston Churchill

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Start your Thursday with an attitude of optimism. It’s going to be a good day!"

- Kate Summers

"Thursdays bring a focus to our week to complete all that needs to be done."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

- Joyce Brothers

"Don’t count the days; make the days count. Use this Thursday to make an impact."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle."

- Steve Jobs

"You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."

- Michelle Obama

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen."

- Wayne Huizenga

"There is no such thing as work— life balance. It is all life. The balance has to be within you."

- Sadhguru

"Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- Robert Collier

"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare."

- Angela Duckworth

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience."

- Michelle Obama

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."

- Phil Jackson

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge."

- Simon Sinek

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Steve Jobs

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."

- Ross Simmonds

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

- Winston Churchill

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Your attitude is critical to success. If you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve problems, overcome adversity, and have an enthusiastic energy about how you go about and enjoy your work."

- Nick Saban

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

- A.A. Milne

"Thursday comes, and the week’s gone"

- George Herbert

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

"Either I will find a way, or I will make one."

- Philip Sidney

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

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

- Lao Tzu

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

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

- Sam Levenson

"Trust yourself. You probably know more than you think you do… Trust that you can learn anything."

- Melinda French Gates

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

- Aristotle

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Farrah Gray Rogers

"There will always be hurdles in life, but if you want to achieve a goal, you must continue."

- Malala Yousafzai

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"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

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that 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

"Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

- Rumi

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

- Walt Disney

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

- Dale Carnegie

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pele

"Don’t trust any one story of how to become successful."

- Mindy Kaling

"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."

- Viola Davis

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

- Ralph Marston

"We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

- Isabel Allende

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

- Walt Disney

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are."

- J.P. Morgan

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you."

- Mary Lou Retton

"The only thing you have control over is your attitude."

- Viktor Frankl

"You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."

- Stephen King

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."

- Les Brown

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."

- Charles Buxton

"If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

- Stephen Hawking

"What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions."

- Mr. Rogers

"Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

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

- Karen Lamb

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Whether I fail or succeed, it’s the going for it."

- Jonathan van Ness

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

- Toni Morrison

"Do not let anyone ever tell you who you are."

- Kamala Harris

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

- Herman Melville

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- George Lorimer

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You can make a positive impact on the world when you maintain your equanimity, resilience, recovery, and renewal as strong and positive."

- Amit Ray

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- George Lorimer

"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day."

- Will Durant

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."

- George Washington

"Success only comes to those who dare to attempt."

- Mallika Tripathi

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it."

- Richard Whately

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

- Stephen King

"You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide."

- Tony Morgan

"Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final."

- Cory Booker

"Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick."

- Amanda Gorman

"Labor conquers all things."

- Virgil

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Winston Churchill

"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."

- Frank Ocean

"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

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

- Dale Carnegie

"The key to success is to start before you are ready."

- Marie Forleo

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass."

- Maya Angelou

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"Tough times don’t last. Tough people do."

- Robert H. Schuller

"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

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do."

- Brian Tracy

"I dream it / I work hard / I grind ’til I own it"

- Beyoncé

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step."

- Brandon Sanderson

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little."

- Buddha

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success."

- Tamara Taylor

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

- Tom Hanks

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

- Chris Grosser

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit."

- Banksy

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

"Resiliency is something you do, more than something you have. . . You become highly resilient by continuously learning your best way of being yourself in your circumstance."

- Al Siebert

"You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind"

- Joyce Meyer

"Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe."

- Sumner Redstone

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Opportunities don't happen. You create them."

- Chris Grosser

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

- Tony Robbins

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"I hate that word: ‘lucky.’ It cheapens a lot of hard work."

- Peter Dinklage

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"Dream big. Start small."

- Proverb

"And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good."

- John Steinbeck

"People talk about confidence without ever bringing up hard work. That’s a mistake. I know I sound like some dour older spinster... Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it."

- Mindy Kaling

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

- Lin Manuel Miranda

"When someone tells me 'no,' it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

- Plato

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

- Anatole France

"What I’ve realized is that confidence is a daily journey. We always think that confidence is a destination we must get to, but it’s a choice we make..."

- Jonathan van Ness

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"Self-reflection is a much kinder teacher than regret is. Prioritize yourself by making a habit of it."

- Andrena Sawyer

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done."

- Thomas Jefferson

"It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort."

- Jillian Michaels

"Owning up to your vulnerabilities is a form of strength."

- Lizzo

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"Thursday, I forecast as mostly sunny. It’s a much-needed break."

- John Farley

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it’s a different kind of life."

- Buckminster Fuller

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

- Percival Everett

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

- James Allen

"The sun is new each day."

- Heraclitus

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

"The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."

- Winston Churchill

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

"Drench yourself in words unspoken / Live your life with arms wide open / Today is where your book begins / The rest is still unwritten"

- Natasha Bedingfield

"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

"You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."

- Karl Barth

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

- William Arthur Ward

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"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

"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."

- Meister Eckhart

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Thursday comes, and the week’s gone."

- George Herbert

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

- Maya Angelou

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."

- Buddha

"Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now."

- Roy T. Bennett

"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives."

- John F. Kennedy

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon."

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

"Life is a balance between holding on and letting go."

- Rumi

"It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. . . Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

- Hans Selye

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

"Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside."

- Idowu Koyenikan

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

"You can get what you want or you can just get old."

- Billy Joel

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"'Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.'"

- Toni Morrison

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

- Melody Beattie

"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built."

- Simone Biles

"Be sure when you step, step with care and great tact. And remember that life is a great balancing act."

- Dr. Seuss

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."

- Bruce Lee

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

- Hasidic Proverb

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

- Walter Bagehot

"I gave myself permission to fail. But I wouldn’t give myself permission not to try."

- Steve Pavlina

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."

- Pope Paul VI

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others – a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill."

- Thomas Kinkade

"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times."

- Ovid

"When nobody fails, everybody loses. Feedback and resilience are vital."

- Alan Froggatt

"Wednesday’s child is full of woe, but Thursday’s child has far to go."

- Elisse Boyd

"It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning because, boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day?"

- Mel Gibson

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The root of joy is gratefulness . . . It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful."

- David Steindl-Rast

"If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get."

- Frank A. Clark

"To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage."

- Confucius

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy."

- Marcel Proust

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Thursday morning and the sun is early, Thursday morning and the trees are singing."

- Giles, Giles & Fripp

"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty."

- Doris Day

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

- Henry David Thoreau

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

"Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day."

- Alice Morse Earle

"Wherever you are, be all there."

- Jim Elliot

"An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you."

- Goi Nasu

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

- Bo Bennett

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

- Victor Hugo

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

- Albert Einstein

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"Thursday is perhaps the worst day of the week. It’s nothing in itself; it just reminds you that the week has been going on too long."

- Nicci French

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

- Seneca

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

- Charles Dickens

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small."

- Azim Premji

"Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood."

- Bill Murray

"Every morning is a reminder to let go of the past and embrace the present."

- Tonmoy Acharjee

"The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it."

- Michael Josephson

"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

- Buddha

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

- Buddha

"Act, don't react."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself."

- Confucius

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."

- Confucius

"I turned my attention to gratitude and discovered that the more I cultivated a sense of appreciation for all that I had, the happier and less fearful I was."

- M. J. Ryan

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"'Count your blessings' is such a common expression that it has become a catchphrase. Yet it contains powerful truth and meaning: Be grateful for what you have – and for what you don't have."

- Robert W. Bly

"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"Act without expectation."

- Lao Tzu

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present."

- Lao Tzu

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We should not measure success by bank accounts filled with money, but rather by moments filled with joy and gratitude. Pursuing your passion vigorously and relentlessly will bring you those moments."

- Dennis Houchin

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

- Henri Frederic Amiel

"The practice of gratitude empowers, heals, inspires, and fosters heartfelt well–being."

- Angeles Arrien

"It takes a lot of courage to have an attitude of gratitude during the dark times. But once you have it, it empowers you."

- Joshua Tongol

"The groundwork of all happiness is health."

- Leigh Hunt

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

- Lao Tzu

"The first wealth is health."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

- Mother Teresa

"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

"feeling of abundance."

- Brenda Nathan

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

- Voltaire

"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count."

- Neal A. Maxwell

"The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."

- W.T. Purkiser

"It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack."

- Germany Kent

"Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift."

- Amit Ray

"I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That’s all any of us can hope for."

- April Winchell

"Common sense is not so common."

- Voltaire

"He who laughs, lasts."

- Proverb

"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble."

- Admiral William Hasley, Jr.

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

- Emily Dickinson

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way."

- Jef Raskin

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"Man conquers the world by conquering himself."

- Zeno of Citium

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Thursday is full of timeless thoughts and marshmallow dreams."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

"Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it."

- Ryan Lilly

"In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues."

- Wilkie Collins

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

- E. E. Cummings

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

- Seneca

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears."

- John Vance Cheney

"Hope is a waking dream."

- Aristotle

"I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake."

- Lewis Black

"When reality and dreams collide, typically it’s just your alarm clock going off."

- Crystal Woods

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

- Saint Augustine

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."

- Thomas Campbell

"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"It was a sinking feeling, that feeling when you wake up thinking it’s Friday only to realize it’s Thursday"

- Danielle Poulin

"Good morning is a contradiction of terms."

- Jim Davis

"I hate mornings, they start so early."

- Janet Evanovich

"Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!"

- William Wordsworth

"Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."

- William Shakespeare

"Softly the night winds murmur dreams of thee."

- Proverb

"Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits."

- Jerry Dunn

"Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams."

- Brad Sugars

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

- Vaibhav Shah

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for."

- Unknown

"Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing."

- Unknown

"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."

- Unknown

"Fortune favors the bold."

- Unknown

"Well begun is half done."

- Unknown

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"Let us be thankful for the work we do — it is our gift to the world."

- Unknown

"Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are."

"Every day is a fresh beginning."

- Unknown

"Let your morning thoughts be bright, for they set the tone of your day."

- Unknown

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive."

- Unknown

"Bloom where you are planted."

"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."

- Unknown

"Breathe in peace, breathe out stress."

- Unknown

"To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom."

- Unknown

"Man is what he believes."

- Unknown

"Rest is not idleness... and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees... is by no means a waste of time."

- Unknown

"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."

- Unknown

"True wisdom is to know that you know nothing."

- Unknown

"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."

- Unknown

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy."

- Unknown

"Let your smile change the world, but do not let the world change your smile."

- Unknown

"True self-love is not arrogant or boastful, but gentle and understanding."

- Unknown

"Walking is man's best medicine."

- Unknown

"Let your heart be full of gratitude every day."

- Unknown

"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."

- Unknown

"The body is the temple of the soul."

- Unknown

"Blessings are not just received — they are recognized."

- Unknown

"Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty."

- Unknown

"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."

- Unknown

"A heart that loves is always young."

- Unknown

"The past is a lantern by which we may illuminate the present."

- Unknown

"A wise man hears one word and understands two."

- Unknown

"Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world."

- Unknown

"The memories we collect and give brighten our lives as long as we live."

- Unknown

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."

- Unknown

"Everyone has the same 24 hours in their Thursday. It's how you use them that makes the difference."

"This Thursday, be the sunshine in someone's day."

"Stop waiting for the weekend. Take a deep breath and enjoy your Thursday."

"What are you doing this Thursday to get closer to living the life of your dreams?"

"This is your Thursday reminder that you were born to be amazing and unique."

"Your Thursday will be whatever you make it. It's up to you to make it a great one."

"Take time this Thursday to look back over your week. Be proud of everything you've already accomplished."

"Happy Thursday! Go out there and make it the best day of your week yet!"

"Thursday is a great day to chase your dreams!"

"Thursday is Friday's way of saying, "Hang on, I'm on my way!""

"Thursday is the perfect day to decide what you can do right now to make this the best week ever."

"No matter how big or small your goals are, take steps this Thursday to reach them."

"It's Thursday. You opened your eyes, you're breathing. You're blessed."

"Start your Thursday with a positive thought and let your happiness guide your day."

"Meditate. Hydrate. Speak words of kindness and gratitude. And this will be your best Thursday ever."

"Today is Thursday, which means I will be working really hard today on everything that needs to get done before the end of the week. And by that, I really mean that I’ll be on my computer looking up fun things to do this weekend!"

"If you do not go after what you have, you’ll never have it. If you do not ask, the answer will always be no. If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place."

"It's a brand new Thursday. Your calendar has a clean slate. The possibilities are endless."

"This Thursday, make it a point to be around people who make you happy and do things that make you feel alive."

"Sprinkle kindness throughout your Thursday."

"May joy and happiness accompany you throughout your Thursday and into the weekend."

"When Thursday threatens to overwhelm you, remind yourself that you've already gotten this far and nothing can stop you now."

"Thankful Thursday: What are you grateful for in your life right now?"

"Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them."

"Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain."

"Thursday is the best day of the week to crush your goals."

"The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you’re no longer willing to stay where you are."

"Let your friends, colleagues and family know about the good that you see; it will help them see it too."

"Don't spend your Thursday wishing it was Friday. You've got 24 hours today, enjoy them all."

"Today is a whole new day. Expect great things to happen this Thursday."

"If you can stand on tiptoes, you can see Friday. There’s light at the end of the weekend tunnel!"

"Your attitude determines how far you’ll go. Stay positive and conquer this Thursday!"

"Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place."

"Success is not built on luck. It’s built on hard work and determination. Keep pushing forward, even on Thursdays!"

"Thursday is the bridge between the hard work of the week and the sweet reward of the weekend"

"Thursday is the bridge between the hard work of the week and the sweet reward of the weekend."

"Thursday is a canvas for reflecting on what’s been achieved and planning what’s to come."

"The day is just beginning, but look how far you have come to get here."

"Some people call it Thursday, I like to call it Friday Eve."

"Thursday is proof that positivity and persistence can get you through anything."

"Happy Almost-Friday, everyone! Let’s power through today like it’s the last hurdle of a marathon."

"Thursday isn’t just about today—it’s about setting yourself up for a fulfilling weekend."

"Is it really Thursday? Or is it Friday Eve?"

"Some people call it Thursday; I like to call it Friday Eve."

"Dream it. Wish it. Do it."

"Thursdays are a great day for going on an adventure!"

"Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you."

"Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it."

"The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it."

"Thursday Thought: One small daily habit can change your entire life."

"Your limitation—it's only your imagination."

"Great things never come from comfort zones."

"Thursdays are for embracing the chaos of the week and turning it into something beautiful."

"Thursdays are for channelling your inner superhero and tackling your to-do list like a boss."

"Good morning, Thursday! Let’s make today so productive that we can afford to be lazy tomorrow."

"Happy Thursday! I hope your coffee is strong and your deadlines are weak"

"Thursday is like a math problem. It’s so close to Friday yet so far away."

"Thursday is the day for looking forward with optimism and backward with wisdom."

"Nothing messes up your Friday like realizing it’s only Thursday"

"It’s Friday! Sorry… just practicing for tomorrow!"

"Some people call it Thursday, I like to call it Friday Eve"

"Effort is what is required to turn good intentions into reality."

- Unknown

"It’s Thursday. Let’s get shaken and stirred. Do I smell the weekend?"

"Friday just called – she’ll be here tomorrow, and she’s bringing the wine."

"Dear Thursday: Are you sure you’re not Friday? Because I could really go for it being Friday. Nothing personal, it’s just been a long week."

"Thursday mornings are like a game of Jenga. You’re trying to keep it all together until Friday, but sometimes it all falls apart."

"Thursdays are just wannabes. They wannabe Friday but they’re not."

"It’s Thursday! Aka Friday Jr."

"Thursday mornings are like a speed bump on the way to the weekend"

"Every Thursday, my brain thinks about the weekend while my body is stuck at work."

"Friday just called; she’ll be here tomorrow, and she’s bringing the wine."

"Don’t forget to practice your ‘TGIF’ dance moves in the office."

"Dear Thursday: Are you sure you’re not Friday? Because I could really go for it being Friday. Nothing personal, it’s just been a long week"

"Happy Thursday! I hope your coffee is strong and your deadlines are weak."

"If 40 is the new 30, and 50 is the new 40, why can’t Thursday be the new Friday?"

"If TGIF is Thank God It’s Friday, then today must be SHIT – Sure Happy It’s Thursday."

"Thursday is my favorite day to plan how I’m going to get out of the plans I already made for the weekend."