Inspiring Monday Quotes to Kickstart Your Week

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

- Kimberly Jiménez

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

- Stephen King

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

- Joel Osteen

"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution."

- Aristotle

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Simon Sinek

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Joel Brown

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Walt Disney

"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

"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing."

- Will Rogers

"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."

- Harvey S. Firestone

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

- David Dweck

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more."

- Simon Sinek

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

- David Dweck

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

- Germany Kent

"Mondays are the start of the workweek which offers new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

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

- Dalai Lama XIV

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

- Jerry Spinelli

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

- Estée Lauder

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they are in control."

- Tom Landry

"Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

- Maya Angelou

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

- Peter Drucker

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Farrah Gray Rogers

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Sam Levenson

"If we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"Surround yourself with people that push you to do and be better. No drama or negativity. Just higher goals and higher motivation. Good times and positive energy. No jealousy or hate. Simply bringing out the absolute best in each other."

- Warren Buffett

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Tony Hsieh

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point."

- Pat Summitt

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

- Chris Grosser

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Adora Svitak

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

- Aristotle

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

- LeBron James

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

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."

- Robert Collier

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

- Walt Disney

"You don't inspire your teammates by showing how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are."

- Robyn Benincasa

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

- Kristin, Sophisticated Gal

"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

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Ken Poirot

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

- Nido Qubein

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Carmelo Anthony

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

- Herman Cain

"You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Janine Allis

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

- Lin Manuel Miranda

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Roger Staubach

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

- Robert Collier

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- George S. Patton

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Karen Lamb

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

- Jack Canfield

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Mario Andretti

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

- David Allen

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

- Grant Cardone

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Galatians 6:9

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Rumi

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

- Charles Dickens

"Successful people don't have different problems. They have different solutions."

- Sabastian Enges

"To build a strong team, you must see someone else's strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority."

- Christine Caine

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

- Steve Jobs

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

- John F. Kennedy

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him."

- Confucius

"A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Germany Kent

"So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends — but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership."

- Julio Alexi Genao

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Ralph Marston

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Farrah Gray

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

- Dr. Henry Link

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Jessica Herrin

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Maya Angelou

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Zig Ziglar

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."

- Zig Ziglar

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Success isn't owned. It's leased, and rent is due every day."

- J.J. Watt

"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."

- Greg Anderson

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

- John Wooden

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

- Epictetus

"The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands."

- Anne Frank

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

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

- David Dweck

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Ken Poirot

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

- Isabella Koldras

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

- Will Rogers

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

- John Wooden

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results."

- Robin Sharma

"Dream big. Start small. Act now."

- Robin Sharma

"The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something."

- Seth Godin

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Focus on being productive instead of being busy."

- Tim Ferriss

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Sam Levenson

"Your focus determines your reality."

- George Lucas

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

- Napoleon Hill

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Albert Schweitzer

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives."

- Michelle Obama

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Walt Whitman

"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true—it did for me."

- David Bailey

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

- Helen Keller

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Peter Drucker

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’"

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Lao Tzu

"You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Ella Woodward

"The biggest thrill wasn’t in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday."

- Art Rooney

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Stephanie LaHart

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

- Gabriel García Márquez

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right."

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsley

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

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

- Walt Disney

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

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

- Winston Churchill

"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t."

- Rikki Rogers

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

- Albert Pujols

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Maria Robinson

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

- E. Jean Carroll

"If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not."

- Elon Musk

"I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life."

- Miles Davis

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

- Herman Melville

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Sukhraj S. Dhillon

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

- Lisa Messenger

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Pope Francis

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Arnold Glasow

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

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

- Marilu Henner

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

- Richard Branson

"A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there."

- Gina Milicia

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication."

- Roger Staubach

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

- Mark Zuckerberg

"Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Adversity is an opportunity for heroism."

- Marv Levy

"If everyone would strive to be the captain of their team as opposed to being the MVP, there would be lot better teams."

- Derek Jones

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Ryan Freitas

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

- Anita Roddick

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

- Arlyn Davich

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

- Ken Poirot

"The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves."

- Chanakya

"Change is inevitable. Change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that's when it's progress."

- Doug Baldwin

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked."

- Mark Twain

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Michael Ely

"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world."

- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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

- Henry Link

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

- Herb Kelleher

"Monday is for people with a mission."

- Cristina Imre

"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."

- Frederick B. Wilcox

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

- Charles Buxton

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

- Andrea L’Artiste

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

"We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t."

- Frank A. Clark

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

- Charles Dickens

"Don't blame the distractions. Improve your focus."

- Nicholaos Gouvounoitis

"If you accept the call to leadership, then you must be willing to be misunderstood, criticized, opposed, accused and even rejected."

- Braque Talley

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

- Mme Du Deffand

"Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter."

- Francis Chan

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

- John Berryman

"We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their behavior."

- Stephen R. Covey

"In estimating the greatness of a man’s lifework, it is fair to take into consideration the difficulties under which the man has accomplished it."

- F.B. Meyer

"Every day brings new choices."

- Martha Beck

"No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It's very simple when you look at it."

- Kevin Hart

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

- Michelle Duval

"MOTIVATION might change your day, but DISCIPLINE will change your life."

- Billy Cox

"I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living."

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Robert Frost

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

- Dolly Parton

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory."

- Bill Russell

"Constantly working below your skill level can be demoralizing, but working at the top of your game is motivating."

- John Seiffer

"You fail all the time, but you aren’t a failure until you start blaming someone else."

- Bum Phillips

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

- Chinese Proverb

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

- Walt Disney

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

- Old Eskimo Proverb

"We only have one life, and it is very precious, and there’s a lot we can do, and there’s a lot we should do."

- Selena Gomez

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

- Deep Roy

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

- Byron Pulsifer

"Even the best weeks start with Monday."

- Nice Peter

"I must break the routines and become a person who becomes productive every Monday. I must break the mindset of unhappiness and turn myself into a happy magnet for Mondays."

- Leggy Saul

"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life."

- Pythagoras

"Leaders are tested only when people don’t want to follow."

- Time Magazine 2015

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

- Henry Ford

"There's a lot of humiliation on the playground. Before you finally establish your reputation, you have to suffer a lot. I was humiliated so many times that I got used to it. But it was one of those things. You either subjected yourself to the humiliation or left the park."

- Al McGuire

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of the void but out of chaos."

- Mary Shelley

"I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, ‘Hey, I made a mistake.’ Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy."

- Al McGuire

"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

- Bill Gates

"1. God is first, others second, I am third. 2. Establish a Goal. 3. Set up a plan to reach that goal. 4. Play fairly, play hard, but play to win. 5. Win humbly--Lose graciously. 6. Place team success above personal glory. 7. Be dedicated. I pledge to upload this creed."

- Bart Starr's Creed

"Consistency in voice and expectations gives you a chance to go from average, to good, to really good, to maybe even great."

- Luke Fickell

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."

- Ayn Rand

"If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it."

- Gorgias, Philosopher

"Knowledge not shared is knowledge wasted…"

- Saidi Mkomwa

"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."

- Masanobu Fukuoka

"Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue."

- Roger C. Anderson

"Rule No. 1: Don’t do business with assholes. Rule No. 2: If you’re currently doing business with assholes, see rule No. 1."

- Joseph C. Niebler Sr.

"Know that something good will always happen."

- Gabriel García Márquez

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

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

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

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

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

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

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

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

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

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

"A positive mindset attracts positive outcomes."

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

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

"Competition happens at the bottom. The people at the top are collaborating."

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

"I really need a day in between Sunday and Monday."

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

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

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

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

"Mondays are for fresh starts."

"Monday is the perfect day to correct last week’s mistakes."

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

"The best way to achieve your goals is to take one step at a time."

"Mondays don’t have to be a drag when you’re motivated to work toward your goals."

"You are in control. Never forget that. Start your Monday with positive thoughts."

"The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do."

"It’s not about having time. It’s about making time."

- Unknown

"Focus on the good, and the good gets better."

"Monday won’t be so gloomy if you believe that something good is always bound to happen."

"If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission."

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

"Don’t stop until you’re proud."

"The best way to get something done is to begin."

"Ambition is the first step to success. The second step is action."

"Stay positive. Better days are on their way."

"Every Monday is a chance to start a new life, so use it."

"Attack Monday with enthusiasm, laughter, thousands of smiles, and cheerfulness."

"Let your Monday be filled with unbearable happiness and joy! Happy Monday!"

"Start your Monday with a plan. The rest of the week will thank you for it."

"Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase."