These motivational Monday quotes will inspire you. Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. According to the International Organization for Standardization’s ISO 8601 standard, it is the first day of the week and in countries that adopt the “Sunday-first” convention, it is the second day of the week.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Monday quotes, Monday sayings, and Monday proverbs.
Best Monday Quotes
- “If each day is a gift, I’d like to know where to return Mondays!” ~ John Wagner
- “Even the best weeks start with Monday” ~ Nice Peter
- “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” ~ Dalai Lama , Monday quotes positive
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“You master Monday! You start winning the day! You start winning the week! Then the month! Then the year!” ~ Eric Thomas
- “Every Monday morning is new hope.” ~ Maira Kalman
- “This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” ~ Alan Watts , Monday quotes for work
- “Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.” ~ Steven Wright
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Will Durant
- “The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.” ~ Alan Cohen
- “Rather than put ourselves down continually, we must work hard to concentrate on our positives, focusing on that which makes us unique and likable. We all have things that we would change if we could. Even people who we think have it all, don’t. Nobody has it all because no one is perfect. We all realize this and yet continue to criticize and insult ourselves. Now is the time to stop this nonsense! Change what you can change and accept the rest as a necessary part of your own unique humanity. Make peace with who you are.” ~ Douglas Kelley
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“Today you are you! That is truer than true!” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “I’ve heard of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. But I’ve never heard of Someday.” ~ Reverend Ike
- “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” ~ Confucius
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
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“If you can dream it, you can do it.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.” ~ Yogi Berra
- “Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.” ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
- “Your Monday is not going to be like Saturday; the emotions are going to be different.” ~ Jean Grae
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“One-seventh of your life is spent on Monday.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “Good things don’t come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!” ~ Julian Bond
- “If you think you can’t, you’re right.” ~ Carol Bartz
- “Good things come to those who initiate.” ~ Susan RoAne
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“There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.” ~ Rick Yancey
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” ~ Alan Kay
- “The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn’t stayed put and all has to be done over again.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don’t get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn’t, somebody else would have and we’d still be here. Big deal.” ~ John Waters
- “The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
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“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work” ~ David Rockefeller
- “On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.” ~ H. Allen Smith , Good morning Monday quotes
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Confucius
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
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“When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don’t have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I’ve won.” ~ Paul Merton
- “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” ~ Richard Bach
- “Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.” ~ Henry J. Kaiser
- “Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” ~ Robert Orben
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“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills” ~ Jim Rohn
- “I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.” ~ Nelson Algren
- “I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.” ~ Groucho Marx
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“Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I’m a man of simple pleasures, really.” ~ Arthur Darvill
- “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined…” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” ~ Wayne Gretzky
- “Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.” ~ Seth Godin
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“FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.” ~ Bill Phillips
- “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama , Happy Monday quotes
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere” ~ Henry A. Kissinger
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“Good things come to those who wait.” ~ Jess C Scott
- “Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness–if you had little time left to live–you would waste precious little of it! Well, I’m telling you…you do have a terminal illness: It’s called birth. You don’t have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason–or you will never be at all.” ~ Dan Millman
- “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” ~ David Rockefeller
- “I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.” ~ Neil Gaiman
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“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” ~ Pearl S. Buck
- “It’s hard to get lost if you don’t know where you’re going.” ~ Jim Jarmusch
- “The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps.” ~ Samuel Beckett
- “My God… What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don’t make the playoffs?” ~ Wade Boggs
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“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “…try to not be disappointed in anything. Know that life is showing up perfectly in every moment. Today’s disappointment could be tomorrow’s springboard to all that you’ve ever wanted. In fact, it probably is.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch
- “True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.” ~ Zig Ziglar
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“If you can dream it, you can make it so.” ~ Belva Davis
- “All good things come to those who wait.” ~ Paullina Simons
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” ~ Zig Ziglar
