Get Your Monday Morning Started Right.
Most people dread hearing Monday morning 6:00am alarm clock after a weekend break from work. They see it as the beginning of another week of staying in hectic traffic going to their 9 to 5 work or life struggle continues.
Your Monday mornings don’t have to suck. You can use Monday as a crucial moment of reflection and preparation in order to set the stage for a productive week. It should be the day to look forward with anticipation and enthusiasm for all that the coming week will bring.
Whichever memories you have from the weekend, say goodbye to them all and take advantage of the start of a new week. Try these Happy Monday Morning Motivation Quotes to get you pumped up!. Also, share with others to inspire and encourage them on this Monday.
Best Monday Morning Motivation Quotes
“There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.”
― Roger Staubach
“Think of many things; do one.”
― Portuguese proverb
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― Mark Twain
“We become what we think about.”
― Earl Nightingale
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
― Jack Canfield
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
― Margaret Thatcher
“A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it’s built for.”
― Albert Einstein
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
― Wayne Dyer
“Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist—while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!”
― Lori Greiner
“Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
― J.K. Rowling
“Don’t mistake activity with achievement.”
― John Wooden
“Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.”
― Elbert Hubbard
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”
― Groucho Marx
“Each time you make a good decision or do something nice or take care of yourself; each time you show up to work and work hard and do your best at everything you can do, you’re planting seeds for a life that you can only hope will grow beyond your wildest dreams. Take care of the little things—even the little things that you hate—and treat them as promises to your own future. Soon you’ll see that fortune favors the bold who get sh*t done.”
“Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.”
― Stephanie LaHart
“Don’t ask if your dream is crazy, ask if it’s crazy enough.”
― Lena Waithe
“If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it ― teach yourself to be impatient.”
― Gurbaksh Chahal
“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
― Peter Drucker
“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
“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius
“Don’t be afraid to get no’s, make mistakes and fail multiple times. That’s gonna give you a thicker skin to follow your passion and your own road!”
― Naya Rappaport
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
― John R. Wooden
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
― Dalai Lama
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
― Viggo Mortensen
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett
“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.”
― Andy Rooney
“Forget about what you have todofor a second. How do you want tobefor today?”
― Jane Scudder
“Have a dream, chase it down, jump over every single hurdle, and run through fire and ice to get there.”
― Whitney Wolfe Herd
“I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.”
― Estée Lauder
“Life is a fairytale starring you. You have the power to write your own story and be the hero of it, too.”
― Joelle Speranza
“My business philosophy is that you have to work harder than everybody else. I always tell my kids and they’re like, ‘Yeah, we know you work hard.’ I’m like, ‘No, it’s not just that I work hard. I put in harder work than everybody else. I work harder and harder and harder and harder. When everybody is sleeping, I’m doing more.’ It’s just a relentless pursuit of creativity.”
― Jennifer Lopez
“Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
“No one ever slows her agenda.”
― Rhonesha Bing
“On my own I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, I’ll create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.”
― Beyoncé
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.”
― Martha Stewart
“I have the same goal I’ve had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.”
― Madonna
“I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”
― Serena Williams
“I was thinking one day and I realized that if I just had somebody behind me all the way to motivate me I could make a big difference. Nobody came along like that so I just became that person for myself.”
― Unknown
“I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we’re all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose. When you connect with that love and that compassion, that’s when everything unfolds.”
― Ellen DeGeneres
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Know this one great truth: you are in control of your own life.”
― Rachel Hollis
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
― Neale Donald Walsh
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…”
― Marcus Aurelius
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
― Milton Berle
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
― Olin Miller
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
― Charles F. Kettering
“When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.”
― Edmond Mbiaka
“Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.”
― Brian Tracy
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
― Stephen R. Covey
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde
“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”
― Shonda Rhimes
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
― Maya Angelou
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”
― Dennis P. Kimbro
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
― Bertrand Russell
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
― Mary Lou Retton
“People might think you can turn creativity on and off, but it’s not like that. It just kind of comes out. A mash up of all these things you collect in your mind. You never know when it’s gonna happen, but when it does … it’s like magic. It’s just that simple and it’s just that hard.”
― Gwen Stefani
“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
― Brian Littrell
“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
“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”
― Dean Smith
“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
― Joan Collins
“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”
― Caterina Fake
“Someday is not a day of the week.”
― Denise Brennan-Nelson
“Spend time thinking about what matters to you and what you find to be meaningful. Invest in those things. It’s wonderful when you can live your life in accordance with your own values rather than what other people tell you. Leave everything else behind because it really doesn’t matter if it doesn’t bring you joy.”
― Tasha Cochran
“Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.”
― Eckhart Tolle
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing … is not starting something.”
― Seth Godin
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
― Mark Twain
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
― M. Scott Peck
“Every day brings new choices.”
― Martha Beck, life coach and author
“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. “
― Lily Tomlin
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“The universe might respect the law of attraction, but it respects a good hustle even more.”
― Lilly Singh
“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”
― John Newton
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Whatever it is that you think you want to do, and whatever it is that you think stands between you and that, stop making excuses. You can do anything.”
― Katia Beauchamp
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
― Ashley Smith
“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― Lolly Daskal
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
― Anais Nin
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
― Lucille Ball
“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
“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe”
― Tom Preston-Werner
“My experiences remind me that it’s those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.”
― Kelly Clarkson
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
― Lao Tzu
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”