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The Bangles may have sung about Manic Monday and wishing it was Sunday, but how you feel about the first day of the week is determined by your attitude. Do you see it as the start of another long hard week in a job you hate – just one of five working days to endure before you can enjoy the weekend again – or can you see the possibilities in the clean slate a new week brings?
We know it can be hard to summon the enthusiasm after a relaxing weekend, but if you’re struggling to greet Mondays with anything more than a groan, check out these Monday quotes to find out what other people love about the day. Comprising words of wisdom from actors, writers, politicians and more, this extensive list offers you hundreds of mantras to live your life by, driven by the promise of a brand-new start.
Of course, these Monday quotes can be used for just about any new start; a new week, a new month, or even a new year, or maybe you could apply them to a job you’re just starting (or finishing), or a relationship that’s coming to an end. Take the wisdom in these thought-provoking words and start applying them to your own situation, and you’ll be able to flip each new start on its head to become an exciting change for the better.
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“Life offers so many great choices, all you have to do is to see them.” – Unknown
“Let the wisdom of Monday show you why we have weekends.” – Anthony T. Hincks
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” – Pearl Buck
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“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Only your determination and your strong desire will move you forward.” – Aurora Berill
“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
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“If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” – Ben Hogan
“A champion is someone who does not settle for that day’s practice, that day’s competition, that day’s performance. They are always striving to be better. They don’t live in the past.” – Briana Scurry
“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
“It’s not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.” – Brian White
“In the morning, wonder and be generous like the sun. In the evening, meditate and be kind like the moon.” – Debasish Mridha
“A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” – Colin Powell
“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh
“Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems.” – Paul J. Meyer
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
“You might not get the outcome you want in life, but you can become one of the few that put in the work.” – Shane Parrish
“Here’s the only productivity tip you’ll ever need: do the most important thing first each day. Sounds simple. No one does it.” – James Clear
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.” – Swami Vivekananda
“The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.” – Joel Osteen
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar
“We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” – Oscar Wilde
“Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.” – Cheryl Strayed
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
“Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.” – Billy Bowerman
“If you have the right mind-set, you can be just as happy on Monday as you are on Friday.” – Joel Osteen
“No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become Successful.” – Jaymin Shah
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” – Mario Andretti
“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
“Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.” – Haile Gebrselassie
“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow.” – Jerry Spinelli
“Focus on signal over noise. Don’t waste time on stuff that doesn’t actually make things better.” – Elon Musk
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. …so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.” – Leo Tolstoy
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
“If you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilities on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday!” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
“There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach
“For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.” – Amit Ray
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill
“Your attitude, more than anything, will influence your effectiveness.” – Pat Gelsinger
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” – David Allen
“The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” – Charles Dickens
“A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee
“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” – Isabelle Lafleche
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
“This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen.” – Gabriel García Márquez
“Every day brings new choices.” – Martha Beck
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde
“When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” – Ella Woodward
“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” – Yoko Ono
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
“It’s time to read just your mind, Monday mornings no longer have to be a dreaded moment in your life.” – Funké Baffour
“Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.” – Yogi Berra
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
“I believe the first step in any success-sports, work, a service group, whatever-is showing up.” – David DeNotaris
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
“What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” – Vincent Van Gogh
“If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.” – Catherine Pulsifier
“Work to become, not to acquire.” – Elbert Hubbard
“On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire.” – Larry D. Turner
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?” – Ayn Rand
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
“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
“Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed.” – Bethany Hamilton
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
“Life is about making an impact, changing things and leaving things better than you found them.” – Munmi Sarma
“The most effective way to do is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart
“When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.” – Sydney Smith
“Mondays don’t have to be terrible; make them magical instead!” – Kate Hudson
“Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” – Bil Keane
“It is an awful thing to say, but if I was a Rover worker, I would not be pinning my hopes on a deal by next Monday, I’d be looking for a new job.” – Jeff Randall
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
“There is always a miracle at the dawn of Monday; I’m alive.” – Miracle
“You will never plow a field if you only turn it over in your mind.” – Irish Proverb
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston
“Mondays are the start of the workweek which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!” – David Dweck
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“You can win a lot in life just by being the last one to give up.” – James Clear
“Don’t chase the money… chase the passion. Because that’s what is going to keep you happy and motivated and jumping out of that bed Monday morning.” – Tyra Banks
“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi
“The challenge of every Monday is to maintain the same vitality in each and every day of the week.” – Byron Pulsifer
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.” – Tony Robbins
“The difference between winners and ordinary people is winners follow through despite fear while others just dream and take no action.” – Calvin K. Lee
“The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!” – Brian Tracy
“It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.” – Nathan W. Morris
“To find meaning in life is to know your mission.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
“The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” – Napoleon Hill
“Take a new look at your present ‘impossible.’ Consider positive ways to handle it.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
“Manifest the best and forget the rest.” – Rob Liano
“Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.” – Dale Carnegie
“Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.” – Will Rogers
“I do an hour of cardio every day without fail, and I lift on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.” – Skip Bayless
“No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.” – Jonathan Sacks
“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.” – Anthony Robbins
“Don’t let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You’ve got to set a high bar.” – Antonio Villaraigosa
“Public opinions are not your reality… Stay focused on your dream.” – Ekere Marshal
“It always seems bad at first, but then I find a way…” – Samurai Jack
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
“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
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.” – Dennis Waitley
“What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
“You are rewarded in this world based on the value that you give to it.” – Jamie Alderton
“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” – Leo Buscaglia
“What about Monday? That could be the one day we look at things the same way and wear funny shoes.” – Kevin Dalton
“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder
“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” – Jack Ma
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“I said that the issue is not Monday. The issue is action without motivation.” – Denny Dey
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.” – Robert H. Schuller
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
“Keep going because you need to be the person who will get through this.” – Lidia Longorio
“Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg
“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes
“Life is too complicated not to be orderly.” – Martha Stewart
“If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jen Sincero
“You need a plan for yourself, just like you need a plan for a business.” – Brenda Barnes
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
“With the right mindset, you can be just as happy on a Monday as you are on a Friday.” – Joel Osteen
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” –
“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel
“Mondays are mundane, like Tuesdays minus 24 hours.” – Jarod Kintz
“Life is an adventure; we get out of it what we put into it.” – Richard Daly
“By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own.” – Mark Victor Hansen
“You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.” – Charlie Chaplin
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield
“Don’t over stress that it’s a Monday, rather think it’s a great day to start a crisp week.” – Samreen Kausar
“Don’t give it five minutes if you’re not going to give it five years.” – Meghan Markle
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself.” – Epictetus
“What do sharks do on Monday mornings? They get up and start biting. That’s me.” – Gemma Collins
“Great acts are made up of small deeds.” – Lao Tzu
“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” – Benjamin Mays
“The only limits you have are the limits you believe.” – Wayne Dyer
“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” – Norman Ralph Augustine
“Be driven to succeed or get run over.” – Rob Liano
“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.” – Arthur Golden
“Knowing is not enough we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” – Dr. Seuss
“Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein
“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” – Moliere
“You should not let setbacks crush your spirit.” – Stanley T. Crawford
“People will care about your success, not your struggles.” – Brajesh Kumar Singh
“When you wake up every morning, let thanksgiving be your first thought.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.” – Tyler Perry
“Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life.” – Ken Poirot
“It’s Monday… time to motivate and make dreams and goals happen. Let’s go!” – Heather Stillufsen
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“You don’t want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I’ve done later in the week.” – Ike Barinholtz
“You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.” – John Wanamaker
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” – Gore Vidal
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
“The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin
“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.” – Thomas Fuller
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link
“One small positive thought can change your whole day.” – Zig Ziglar
“Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
“Monday would be the start of a whole new chapter in our lives.” – Rob French
“Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.” – William J. Bennett
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee
“The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“I don’t know about you, but I like to fall in love on Mondays. This way if things go south right away you still have the weekend.” – Dov Davidoff
“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.” – Bruce Lee
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson
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