Thursday Inspirational Quotes for Work: Ignite Your Midweek Motivation

"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

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

- William James

"The best way to predict the future is to create it. Start shaping your future this Thursday."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Christian D. Larson

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Wayne Huizenga

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Ralph Marston

"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

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"You're off to great places; today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Don't count the days; make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Muhammad Ali

"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

"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."

- Roy T. Bennett

"If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long."

- Hayley Williams

"You can quit anything on a Thursday."

- Bob Goff

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice."

- William Jennings Bryan

"You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- J.P. Morgan

"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

"Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you."

- Dr. Seuss

"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—then make that day count!"

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Hasidic Proverb

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Jerry Dunn

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Mark Twain

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

- George Addair

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Jim Rohn

"Act without expectation."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Bo Bennett

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- William Butler Yeats

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"Happy Thursday! Greet your problems and decisions with peace and calm. Use your inner wisdom to evaluate and make smart decisions for yourself! You got this!"

- Tracey Edmonds

"On this Thursday, take nothing for granted. Look around and show gratitude for your work, your family and your friends."

- Theodore W. Higginsworth

"Challenges are what make life interesting. Embrace them this Thursday."

- Joshua J. Marine

"As the end of the week approaches, Thursday should be a day for persistence, not inconsistence."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Make it your goal to make someone smile on this Thursday by a small act of kindness; you could change a person's life in a way you may not even realize."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'Thank you?'"

- William A. Ward

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

- Kate Summers

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

- Kate Summers

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Stephen King

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Albert Schweitzer

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy."

- Israelmore Ayivor

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Thursday is the future that I've been waiting to experience."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done."

- David Goggins

"Be happy with what you have while working for what you want. Thursday is my favorite day to plan how I'm going to get out of the plans I already made for the weekend."

- Hellen Keller

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

- Melody Beattie

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

- Meister Eckhart

"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Confucius

"A person is what he or she thinks about all day long."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness is not by chance but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"Your whole life is a manifestation of the thoughts that go on in your head."

- Lisa Nichols

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

- William Arthur Ward

"Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Robert Brault

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

- Alice Morse Earle

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

- George Herbert

"Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning."

- Desmond Tutu

"Thursday is a day of reflections and thoughts."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"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

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

- Percival Everett

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- John Farley

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"Thursday is practically Friday, and Friday is Friday."

- Malcolm Azania

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"Thursday is the future that I’ve been waiting to experience."

- Anthony T. Hincks

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

- George Herbert

"Labor conquers all things."

- Virgil

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Plato

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

- April Winchell

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

- Aristotle

"Life is made out of Thursday afternoons. You just keep having them one after the other and let everything else take care of itself."

- Tim Tharp

"Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travelers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day."

- Jasper Fforde

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

- April Winchell

"This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."

- Douglas Adams

"My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Anatole France

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

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

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

- Unknown

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

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

"The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles."

"Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction."

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

"Thursday is your chance to make this week your best one yet."

- Unknown

"It's going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible."

"Thursday: Too late to give up, too early to celebrate."

- 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

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

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

- Unknown

"Dream bigger. Do bigger."

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

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

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