107 Monday Motivation Quotes That Will Inspire You

Got a case of the Monday blues? You're not alone. The start of a new week can bring about lots of emotions, especially following a relaxing weekend. But instead of pulling the covers over your eyes and hoping for the week to end before it's even begun, check out these Monday motivation quotes. From your friendly Monday morning reminder to get out of bed to quotes about crushing your goals, these sayings are sure to help jump-start the day—no matter what it throws at you. Repeat after me: It's a good day to have a good day. Now let's do this. Happy Monday!

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Positive Monday Morning Quotes

1. "Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters the most." — Buddha
2. "Good Morning. If you want to be happy, be!" — Leo Tolstoy
3. "I like my coffee black and my mornings bright." — Terri Guillemets
4. "Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar." — Antonio Villaraigosa
5. "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." — Anne Frank
6. "Nothing is permanent, including the obstacle you're facing. It's Monday. Get a new perspective and overcome that." — Invajy
7. "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." — Maria Robinson
8. "I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day." — Paul Henderson
9. "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
10. "Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life." — Yoko Ono
11. "Creativity is intelligence having fun." — Albert Einstein
12. "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." — Herman Melville
13. "Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are." — Theodore Roosevelt
14. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." — C.S. Lewis
15. "I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams." — Oprah Winfrey
16. "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." — Diane Ackerman
17. "It's a Monday morning; a new week, a new day, and a new morning to start fresh and achieve your goals." — Invajy
18. "In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." — Jane Smiley
19. "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." — John R. Wooden
20. "What would you do if you weren't afraid?" — Spencer Johnson
21. "Once the choice is made, do not look back, do not second-guess your decisions." — Muhammad Ali
22. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear." — Mark Twain
23. "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain." — Vivian Greene
24. "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
25. "A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between, he does what he wants to do." — Bob Dylan
26. "Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives." — Louise Hay
27. "The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong, and true." — Ralph Marston
28. "Focus on the positives and be grateful." — Katrina Bowden
29. "I worried that people wouldn't like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy." — Lea Michele
30. "Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." — Greg Anderson

Monday Motivation Quotes to Beat the Sunday Scaries

31. "When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day." — Ella Woodward
32. "Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow." — Jerry Spinelli
33. "This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen." — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
34. "In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact." — Les Brown
35. "This is your Monday morning reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you." —Anonymous
36. "The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on." — Charles Dickens
37. "Monday is such a wonderful day. You can start new leaving behind the past week disappointments." — Invajy
38. "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." — Oscar Wilde
39. "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." —Ralph Marston
40. "Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term—goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal." — Karen Salmansohn
41. "Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day." — Unknown
42. "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." — Maya Angelou
43. "You master Monday! You start winning the day! You start winning the week! Then the month! Then the year!" — Eric Thomas
44. "For me, Monday represents a fresh start to the week. It is the day where the slate from the previous week is wiped clean. It is a day of new beginnings." — Allen Smith
45. "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." — Buddha
46. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt
47. "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." — Michael Jordan
48. "We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action." — Henry Charles Link
49. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." — Helen Keller

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Monday Inspiration Quotes About Work

50. "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
51. "Just remember: The people that say, 'your dreams are impossible' have already quit on theirs." — Grant Cardone
52. "Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!" — David Dweck
53. "Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them." — Vaibhav Shah
54. "Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination." — Mae Jemison
55. "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." — Conrad Hilton
56. "So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard." — Caterina Fake
57. "You do not find the happy life. You make it." — Camilla Eyring Kimball
58. "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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
59. "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." — Abraham Lincoln
60. "What I have discovered is that in order to flourish in business or in life, you not only need prosperity, you also need peace." — Marlene Chism
61. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." — Walt Disney
62. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." — Thomas Jefferson
63. "I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time." — Michael Phelps
64. "Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic entrepreneur." — Mohnish Pabrai
65. "The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be." — Amy Poehler
66. "You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals." — Booker T. Washington
67. "If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you." — Steve Jobs
68. "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." — Jimmy Dean
69. "The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others." — Hasidic Proverb
70. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." — Bruce Lee
71. "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." — Michael Jordan

Motivational Monday Quotes for Fitness

72. "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
73. "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." — Henry David Thoreau
74. "Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life." — Ken Poirot
75. "The future depends on what you do today." — Mahatma Gandhi
76. "Don't count the days, make the days count." — Muhammad Ali
77. "People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy." — Tony Robbins
78. "You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." — Martin Luther King Jr.
79. "The worst Monday is the one that gets wasted for nothing." — Anonymous
80. "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." — Lao Tzu
81. "The starting point of all achievement is desire." — Napoleon Hill
82. "If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you." — T. Harv Eker
83. "The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something." — Seth Godin
84. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." — Henry David Thoreau
85. "If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you." — Fred DeVito
86. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
87. "You can feel sore tomorrow or you can feel sorry tomorrow, you choose." — Lauren Gleisberg
88. "Either you run the day or the day runs you." — Jim Rohn
89. "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." — Neale Donald Walsch
90. "Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday." — Brian Tracy

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Funny Monday Morning Thoughts

91. "If Mondays were like Sundays nothing would ever get done." — Catherine Pulsifer
92. "The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one." — Oscar Wilde
93. "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
94. "Even the best weeks start with Monday." — Nice Peter
95. "By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work even if they don't feel like it. Anybody can get maudlin and decide to write poetry at 11 at night; the question is, can you do it at 8:30 on a Monday morning?" — Clive Barker
96. "What about Monday? That could be our one day we look at things the same way, and wear funny shoes." — Kevin Dalton
97. "The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday." — Art Rooney
98. "Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not." — Ursula K. Le Guin
99. "It's just another manic Monday. I wish it was Sunday. 'Cause, that's my fun day." — Prince Rogers Nelson
100. "I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up." — Benjamin Franklin
101. "The awfulness of Monday mornings is the world's greatest common denominator." ― Kenneth Fearing
102. "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'" ― Audrey Hepburn
103. "Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures." — Arthur Darvill
104. "What do sharks do on Monday mornings? They get up and start biting. That's me." — Gemma Collins
105. "Your Monday is not going to be like Saturday; the emotions are going to be different." — Jean Grae
106. "Every day is Monday… till Friday." ― Viktor Volksprater
107. "Believe on Monday the way you believe on Sunday." — Rita Schiano

Wrapping Up

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