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

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Kate Summers

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

- Joyce Brothers

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Byron Pulsifer

"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

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Wayne Huizenga

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- A.A. Milne

"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

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

- Sadhguru

"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

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

- Melinda French Gates

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Farrah Gray Rogers

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Stephen Covey

"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

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

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

- Walt Disney

"Thursday comes, and the week’s gone"

- George Herbert

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Rumi

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

- Aristotle

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

- Confucius

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

- William James

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

- Philip Sidney

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

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"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

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Christian D. Larson

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Viktor Frankl

"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

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Isabel Allende

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

- Madam C.J Walker

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Jonathan Van Ness

"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

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Karen Lamb

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

- Kamala Harris

"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

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Les Brown

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

- Stephen King

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Charles Buxton

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Stephen King

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Mallika Tripathi

"Labor conquers all things."

- Virgil

"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

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

- Vivian Greene

"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

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- George Washington

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Amit Ray

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Amanda Gorman

"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

"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

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Buddha

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Vivian Greene

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

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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

- Banksy

"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

"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

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Marie Forleo

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Brian Tracy

"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

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

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Frank Ocean

"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

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"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

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"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

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

- Yoda

"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

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Mario Andretti

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Sumner Redstone

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

- Joyce Meyer

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Plato

"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

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

- Truman Capote

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Anatole France

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

- Peter Dinklage

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

"Dream big. Start small."

- Proverb

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

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

- Confucius

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

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

- George Herbert

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"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

"The sun is new each day."

- Heraclitus

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- William Arthur Ward

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."

- Karl Barth

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

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

- Winston Churchill

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"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

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

- Andrena Sawyer

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

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

- Percival Everett

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

- John Farley

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

- Neale Donald Walsch

"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

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"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

"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

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- William Butler Yeats

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- George Addair

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Lizzo

"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

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

- Buddha

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

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

"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

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

- Billy Joel

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- John F. Kennedy

"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

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

- Søren Kierkegaard

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

- Robert Brault

"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

"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

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

- Rumi

"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

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

- Albert Schweitzer

"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

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Walter Bagehot

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

- Hasidic Proverb

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

- Steve Pavlina

"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

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Ovid

"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

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

- Marcel Proust

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

- Confucius

"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

"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

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

- G.K. Chesterton

"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty."

- Doris Day

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Giles, Giles & Fripp

"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

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Bill Murray

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

- Charles Dickens

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Azim Premji

"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

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

- Tonmoy Acharjee

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

- Bo Bennett

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Buddha

"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

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

- Victor Hugo

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Buddha

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

- 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

"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

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

- Confucius

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Act without expectation."

- Lao Tzu

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"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

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

- Angeles Arrien

"The groundwork of all happiness is health."

- Leigh Hunt

"feeling of abundance."

- Brenda Nathan

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

- Neal A. Maxwell

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

- Mother Teresa

"The first wealth is health."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Voltaire

"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

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

- Søren Kierkegaard

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- W.T. Purkiser

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Common sense is not so common."

- Voltaire

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"He who laughs, lasts."

- Proverb

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

- Amit Ray

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Admiral William Hasley, Jr

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

- Jef Raskin

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

- Emily Dickinson

"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

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

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Man conquers the world by conquering himself."

- Zeno of Citium

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

- April Winchell

"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

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

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

- E. E. Cummings

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Seneca

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

- Lewis Black

"Hope is a waking dream."

- Aristotle

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

- John Vance Cheney

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

- Crystal Woods

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

- Thomas Campbell

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

- Saint Augustine

"Good morning is a contradiction of terms."

- Jim Davis

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

- Danielle Poulin

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

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"I hate mornings, they start so early."

- Janet Evanovich

"Softly the night winds murmur dreams of thee."

- Proverb

"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

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

- Vaibhav Shah

"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

"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

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"Well begun is half done."

- Unknown

"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."

"Breathe in peace, breathe out stress."

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom."

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"Man is what he believes."

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"Walking is man's best medicine."

- Unknown

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

- 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

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"The body is the temple of the soul."

- 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

"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

"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

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

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

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

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

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

"Sprinkle kindness throughout your Thursday."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Great things never come from comfort zones."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Dream it. Wish it. Do it."

"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."

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

"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"

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

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

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

- Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"It’s Thursday! Aka Friday Jr."

"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."

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

"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"

"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."

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

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