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

**Subtitle:** Your go-to collection of short, powerful quotes to lift morale, sharpen focus, and power you through the week’s final stretch. Start your Thursday with intention. This curated collection of inspirational work quotes for Thursday brings together timeless wisdom, motivational one-liners, and practical reminders to help you reflect on progress and push toward the weekend with purpose. Whether you need a quick pep talk before a meeting, a shareable line for your team chat, or a gentle nudge to finish a big task, these quotes are designed to energize and re-center your day. Each quote is chosen to spark action, gratitude, and perseverance—perfect for professionals, leaders, and anyone who wants to squeeze the most out of their Thursday. You’ll find encouragement on productivity, teamwork, resilience, and optimism, plus a mix of classic voices and modern thinkers so there’s something for every mood and moment. Use this list as a morning ritual, a team motivator, or a personal reminder that small daily efforts lead to meaningful results. Read, save, and share the lines that resonate—and make this Thursday a productive, positive milestone on the way to a well-earned weekend.

Wisdom from the Masters

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

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

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

- Kate Summers

Hard Work

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Motivation

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

- Byron Pulsifer

Focus

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

- Winston Churchill

Courage

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

- Kate Summers

Optimism

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

- Joyce Brothers

Belief in Self

"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

Motivation

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

- Muhammad Ali

Motivation

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"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

Success

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

- Michelle Obama

Courage

"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

Motivation

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

Positivity

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

- Nelson Mandela

Resilience

"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

Personal Growth

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

- David Frost

Success

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

- Winston Churchill

Courage

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Taking Risks

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

Persistence

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

- Wayne Huizenga

Success

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

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

- Robert Collier

Success

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

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Success

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

- Dale Carnegie

Happiness

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

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

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

- Melinda French Gates

Self-confidence

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

- Nelson Mandela

Courage

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

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

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

- Phil Jackson

Teamwork

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

- Simon Sinek

Leadership

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

Teamwork

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

- Steve Jobs

Independence

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

- Ross Simmonds

Hard Work

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

- Winston Churchill

Overcoming Obstacles

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

- Confucius

Resilience

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Growth

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Change

"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

Change

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

- Farrah Gray Rogers

Ambition

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

- Malala Yousafzai

Perseverance

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

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

"Thursday comes, and the week’s gone"

- George Herbert

Change

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

- Stephen Covey

Time Management

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Transformation

"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

Ambition

"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

Success

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

- A.A. Milne

Belief in Self

"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

Success

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

- Sadhguru

Balance

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

- Michelle Obama

Resilience

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Resilience

"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare."

- Angela Duckworth

Resilience

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage

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

- Rumi

Love

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

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

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

- Samuel Johnson

Overcoming Obstacles

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

- Aristotle

Motivation

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

- Jim Rohn

Time Management

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

- Philip Sidney

Determination

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

- William James

Contribution

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

- Sam Levenson

Motivation

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

- Vidal Sassoon

Hard Work

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

- Lao Tzu

New Beginnings

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Taking Risks

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

- Confucius

Perseverance

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

Hard Work

"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

Success

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

- Walt Disney

Motivation

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

- Zig Ziglar

New Beginnings

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

- Ralph Marston

Motivation

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

- Mindy Kaling

Success

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

- Viola Davis

Aspirations

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

- Mary Lou Retton

Happiness

"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

Creativity

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

- Les Brown

Motivation

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Leadership

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

- Charles Buxton

Time Management

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

- Toni Morrison

Philosophy

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

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

- J.P. Morgan

New Beginnings

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

- Madam C.J Walker

Empowerment

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

- Isabel Allende

Resilience

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Facing Fears

"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

Courage

"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

Inspiration

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

- Stephen King

Courage

"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

Perseverance

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

- Kamala Harris

Empowerment

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

- Herman Melville

Creativity

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

- Karen Lamb

Motivation

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

- Viktor Frankl

Resilience

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

- Jonathan Van Ness

Courage

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hope

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

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

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

- Christian D. Larson

Belief in Self

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Determination

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

- Arthur Ashe

Motivation

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage

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

- Earl Nightingale

Aspirations

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

- Muhammad Ali

Time Management

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

- George Lorimer

Determination

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Empowerment

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Inner Peace

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

- Amanda Gorman

Resilience

"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

Courage

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Perseverance

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

- Will Rogers

Determination

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

- Amit Ray

Resilience

"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

Choice

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

- Vivian Greene

Resilience

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Ambition

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

- George Lorimer

Determination

"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

Resilience

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

- Mallika Tripathi

Success

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

- Richard Whately

Time Management

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

- George Washington

Adversity

"Labor conquers all things."

- Virgil

Hard Work

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Courage

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

- Stephen King

Hard Work

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

- Maya Angelou

Courage

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

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

Success

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

- Marie Forleo

Success

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

- Frank Ocean

Hard Work

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

- Robert H. Schuller

Resilience

"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

Self-confidence

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

- Brian Tracy

Success

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

- Zig Ziglar

Goals

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

- Yoda

Motivation

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

- Dalai Lama

Happiness

"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

Success

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

- Mario Andretti

Ambition

"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

Courage

"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

Resilience

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

- Banksy

Resilience

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

- Tom Hanks

Motivation

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

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Self-awareness

"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

Motivation

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

- Buddha

Gratitude

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

Personal Growth

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

- Vivian Greene

Resilience

"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

Personal Growth

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Goals

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

- Beyoncé

Hard Work

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

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

"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

Ambition

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

Courage

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

- Chris Grosser

Motivation

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

- Helen Keller

Optimism

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

- Joyce Meyer

Positivity

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

- Chris Grosser

Optimism

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Achievement

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

- Sumner Redstone

Success

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

Belief in Self

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

- Truman Capote

Failure

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

- John Steinbeck

Self-improvement

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

- Roy T. Bennett

Empowerment

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

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

Vision

"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

Resilience

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Belief in Self

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

- Peter Dinklage

Hard Work

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

- E.E. Cummings

Courage

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

- Maya Angelou

Courage

"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

Self-confidence

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

- Tony Robbins

Success

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

- Plato

New Beginnings

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time Management

"Dream big. Start small."

- Proverb

Goals

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

Success

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

- Anatole France

Motivation

"The sun is new each day."

- Heraclitus

New Beginnings

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Success

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Taking Risks

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

- Jillian Michaels

Motivation

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

- Confucius

Determination

"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

Bravery

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

- Neale Donald Walsch

Courage

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

- Buckminster Fuller

Self-improvement

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

Reflection

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

- Jim Rohn

Taking Risks

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

- George Addair

Facing Fears

"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

Aspirations

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

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

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

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

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

- Roy T. Bennett

Courage

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

- William Butler Yeats

Determination

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

- Meister Eckhart

New Beginnings

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."

- Karl Barth

Gratitude

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

- George Herbert

Reflection

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

Hope

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

- Percival Everett

Awareness

"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

Self-awareness

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

Time Management

"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

New Beginnings

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

- Andrena Sawyer

Self-awareness

"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

Awareness

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

- William Arthur Ward

Gratitude

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

- Maya Angelou

Transformation

"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

Self-care

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

- John Farley

Motivation

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

Belief in Self

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

- Lizzo

Courage

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

Positivity

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Balance

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

Philosophy

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

- Peter Drucker

Vision

"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

Gratitude

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

- Rumi

Balance

"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

Gratitude

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

- Billy Joel

Aspirations

"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

Happiness

"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

Resilience

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

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

Gratitude

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

- Søren Kierkegaard

Reflection

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

- Toni Morrison

Presence

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

- Buddha

New Beginnings

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

- Robert Brault

Gratitude

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

- John F. Kennedy

Gratitude

"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

Personal Growth

"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

Success

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

- Melody Beattie

Gratitude

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

- Dr. Seuss

Balance

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

- Simone Biles

Happiness

"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

Compassion

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

- Albert Schweitzer

Success

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

- Walter Bagehot

Courage

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

- Steve Pavlina

Learning from Mistakes

"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

New Beginnings

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief in Self

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

- Hasidic Proverb

Self-confidence

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

- C.S. Lewis

Aspirations

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

- Bruce Lee

Motivation

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

- Elisse Boyd

Future

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

- Ovid

Belief

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

- Alan Froggatt

Resilience

"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

Contribution

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude

"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

Gratitude

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

- David Steindl-Rast

Gratitude

"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

Reflection

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

- Confucius

Strength

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

- Marcel Proust

Gratitude

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

- G.K. Chesterton

Gratitude

"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty."

- Doris Day

Gratitude

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

- Giles, Giles & Fripp

Motivation

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Well-being

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

- Alice Morse Earle

Positivity

"Wherever you are, be all there."

- Jim Elliot

Presence

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

- Wayne Dyer

Motivation

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

- Charlie Chaplin

Happiness

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

- Seneca

Bravery

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

- Azim Premji

Goals

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

- Charles Dickens

Hope

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

- C.S. Lewis

Adversity

"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

Resilience

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

- Victor Hugo

Happiness

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

- Albert Einstein

Goals

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

- Bo Bennett

Success

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

- Buddha

Belief

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Awareness

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

- Bill Murray

Motivation

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

- Tonmoy Acharjee

Motivation

"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

Adversity

"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

Connection to Earth

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Gratitude

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

- Charles Dickens

Change

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

- Buddha

Philosophy

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

- Buddha

Mindfulness

"Act, don't react."

- Marcus Aurelius

Self-improvement

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

- Confucius

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Awareness

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

- Confucius

Forgiveness

"'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

Gratitude

"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

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude

"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

Gratitude

"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

Presence

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Health

"Act without expectation."

- Lao Tzu

Philosophy

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

- Mark Twain

Courage

"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

Gratitude

"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

Gratitude

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

- Angeles Arrien

Gratitude

"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

Gratitude

"The groundwork of all happiness is health."

- Leigh Hunt

Health

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

- Lao Tzu

Compassion

"The first wealth is health."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health

"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

Compassion

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

- Søren Kierkegaard

Reflection

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

- Mother Teresa

Strength

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

- Neal A. Maxwell

Gratitude

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

- Voltaire

Compassion

"feeling of abundance."

- Brenda Nathan

Gratitude

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude

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

- W.T. Purkiser

Gratitude

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

- Amit Ray

Gratitude

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

- April Winchell

Positivity

"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

Gratitude

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

- Jef Raskin

Originality

"Man conquers the world by conquering himself."

- Zeno of Citium

Personal Growth

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude

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

- Admiral William Hasley, Jr

Boldness

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

Peace

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

- Anthony T. Hincks

Motivation

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Change

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

Creativity

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Self-awareness

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

- Dalai Lama

Happiness

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

- Emily Dickinson

Love

"Common sense is not so common."

- Voltaire

Wisdom

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

- Marilyn Monroe

Creativity

"He who laughs, lasts."

- Proverb

Happiness

"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

Gratitude

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

- Wilkie Collins

Gratitude

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Presence

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

Reflection

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

- E. E. Cummings

Well-being

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Independence

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

- Seneca

Mindfulness

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

- John Vance Cheney

Growth

"Hope is a waking dream."

- Aristotle

Hope

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

- Lewis Black

Happiness

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

- Crystal Woods

Reflection

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

- Saint Augustine

Wisdom

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

- Thomas Campbell

Love

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

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reflection

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

- Danielle Poulin

Reflection

"Good morning is a contradiction of terms."

- Jim Davis

Happiness

"I hate mornings, they start so early."

- Janet Evanovich

Honesty

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

- William Wordsworth

Peace

"Softly the night winds murmur dreams of thee."

- Proverb

Peace

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

- William Shakespeare

Reflection

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

- Jerry Dunn

Courage

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

- Brad Sugars

Motivation

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

- Vaibhav Shah

Success

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

Aspirations

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

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

Success

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

Belief in Self

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

- Unknown

Motivation

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

- Unknown

Ambition

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

- Unknown

Responsibility

"Fortune favors the bold."

- Unknown

Boldness

"Well begun is half done."

- Unknown

Motivation

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

Gratitude

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

- Unknown

Gratitude

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

Motivation

"Every day is a fresh beginning."

- Unknown

New Beginnings

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

- Unknown

Mindfulness

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Happiness

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

- Unknown

Positivity

"Bloom where you are planted."

Personal Growth

"Breathe in peace, breathe out stress."

- Unknown

Well-being

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

- Unknown

Belief in Self

"To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom."

- Unknown

Self-awareness

"Man is what he believes."

- Unknown

Belief

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

- Unknown

Well-being

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

- Unknown

Self-improvement

"Walking is man's best medicine."

- Unknown

Health

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

- Unknown

Self-esteem

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

- Unknown

Positivity

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

- Unknown

Wisdom

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

- Unknown

Gratitude

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

- Unknown

Self-awareness

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

- Unknown

Philosophy

"The body is the temple of the soul."

- Unknown

Health

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

- Unknown

Gratitude

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

- Unknown

Gratitude

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

- Unknown

Contentment

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

- Unknown

Health

"A heart that loves is always young."

- Unknown

Love

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

- Unknown

Philosophy

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

- Unknown

Wisdom

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

- Unknown

Relationships

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

- Unknown

Gratitude

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

- Unknown

Wisdom

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

Taking Risks

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

Drive

"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."

Taking Risks

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

Compassion

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

Reflection

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

New Beginnings

"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!"

Productivity

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

Self-care

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

Positivity

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

Gratitude

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

Goals

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

Motivation

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

Optimism

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

Aspirations

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

Motivation

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

Responsibility

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

Belief in Self

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

Aspirations

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

Presence

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

Compassion

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

Time Management

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

Goals

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

Gratitude

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

Perseverance

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

Joy

"Sprinkle kindness throughout your Thursday."

Compassion

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

Happiness

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

New Beginnings

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

Optimism

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

Presence

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

Hope

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

Positivity

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

Change

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

Success

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

Balance

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

Positivity

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

Optimism

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

Reflection

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

Balance

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

Reflection

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

Aspirations

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

Optimism

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

Personal Growth

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

Balance

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

Motivation

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

Motivation

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

Belief

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

Motivation

"Great things never come from comfort zones."

Growth

"Dream it. Wish it. Do it."

Aspirations

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

Success

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

Hard Work

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

Motivation

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

Positivity

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

Productivity

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

Positivity

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

Positivity

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

Positivity

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

Reflection

"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."

Hope

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

Reflection

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

- Unknown

Hard Work

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

Optimism

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

Happiness

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

Positivity

"It’s Thursday! Aka Friday Jr."

Positivity

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

Reflection

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

Positivity

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

Reflection

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

Awareness

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

Positivity

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

Positivity

"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"

Honesty

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

Balance

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

Positivity

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

Optimism

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

Change