160 Best Monday Motivation Quotes – Get Motivated for the Week Ahead

Start your week on the right note with our collection of Monday Motivation Quotes.

Mondays don't have to be miserable. The idea is to find something to look forward to on Monday that will motivate you throughout the week.

We've rounded up 160 of the best Monday motivational quotes to help you find your inner motivation for this week ahead and help achieve your goals. Read them, print them, or stick them on your bathroom or office wall for daily motivation and live the life you deserve. You can do this!

Inspirational Quotes To Start The Week

Monday Motivation Quotes - Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

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

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

Florence Nightingale

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington

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Monday Motivation Quotes - Booker T. Washington

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Do it or not. There is no try.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Monday Motivation Quotes For A Happy Workday

Monday Motivation Quotes Chris Grosser

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.

The road to success is always under construction.

The future depends on what you do today.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.

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

Monday Motivation Quotes - Steve Jobs

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

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Funny Monday Motivation Quotes

Monday Motivation Quotes

Dear Monday, go step on a lego.

Dear Monday, my mama doesn’t like you and she likes everyone.

This is the mondayest Monday that ever mondayed.

Due to lack of interest. Monday has been canceled.

Monday checklist: coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee.

Monday I shall slay thee with me mighty cup of coffee.

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Enjoy every second of Sunday, for when you least expect Monday comes to haunt you.

Monday again? Is it every week now?

If Monday were a person, it wouldn’t have friends.

Yay, Monday!” Said no one… Ever

Mindset Monday Quotes

Mindset Monday Quotes - Coach Scott Fishman

Anyone can develop the mindset of a champion through practice and action. You can even start today!

Strive to become the best version of you instead of the best copy of someone else’s life.

I believe the first step in any success-sports, work, a service group, whatever-is showing up.

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.

Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

Dreams don’t work unless you do.

Monday Motivation Quotes - John C. Maxwell

Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

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.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time…so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Alexander Graham Bell

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Monday Quotes To Inspire Success

Monday Motivation Quotes - John D. Rockefeller Jr.

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.

Make each day your masterpiece.

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.

You will never plow a field if you only turn it over in your mind.

I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Estee Lauder

The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.

Impossible is just an opinion.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

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Monday Motivation Quotes For Work

Monday Motivation Quotes - Confucius

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Monday Motivation Quotes Luther Campbell

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.

Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Alexander Graham Bell

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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Tony Robbins

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Bruce Lee

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

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.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Best Monday Motivation Quotes And Sayings

Nothing will work unless you do.

Monday Motivation Quotes Maya Angelou

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

It’s Monday… time to motivate and make dreams and goals happen. Let’s go!

Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Your only limit is you.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Unknown

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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Monday Motivation Quotes To Get You Through The Week

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

Monday Motivation Quotes Winston Churchill

A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.

There is no traffic jam along the extra mile.

Roger Staubach Roger Staubach

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The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Steve Jobs

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Wise Monday Motivation Quotes

The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Charles Kingsleigh

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?

Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Jim Rhohn

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.

Monday Quotes For Endless Motivation

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Napoleon Hill

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.

It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Monday Motivation Quotes Dee Dee Artner

If you have time to whine then you have time to find a solution.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Starve your distraction and feed your focus.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

Monday Motivation Quotes That Will Inspire You To Succeed

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Monday Motivation Quotes - George Eliot

There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Arthur Golden

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

It’s not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Monday Motivation Quotes To Beat The Sunday Scaries

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

Monday Motivation Quotes - Sam Levenson

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

A Sunday well spent brings a week of content.

This is your Sunday evening reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you.

My whole career has been an act of revenge.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Shonda Rhimes

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

Candy is nature’s way of making up for Mondays.

If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.

Don’t let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You’ve got to set a high bar.

Antonio Villaraigosa

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You need a plan for yourself, just like you need a plan for a business.

Monday Motivation quotes For A Great Week

Don’t count the days. Make the days count.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Muhammad Ali

Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life.

I must break the routines and become a person who becomes productive every Monday. I must break the mindset of unhappiness and turn myself into a happy magnet for Mondays.

Every day brings new choices.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Unknown

It’s Monday. Get a new perspective. Whatever obstacle you’re facing—it’s not permanent.

Mondays are tough only for those people, who don’t know how to spend them cheerfully. Get up and have fun today!

Believe on Monday the way you believe on Sunday.

Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier and healthier life.

Hey, I know it’s Monday. But it’s also a new day and a new week. And in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.

Positive Monday Quotes for a Happy Life

We become what we think about.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Earl Nightingale

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

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

Monday Motivation Quotes - Pablo Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

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.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

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.

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Maya Angelou

Life is a fairytale starring you. You have the power to write your own story and be the hero of it, too.

Someday is not a day of the week.

Denise Brennan-Nelson

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I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.

Monday Motivation Quotes - Unknown

It’s Monday. Get a new perspective. Whatever obstacle you’re facing—it’s not permanent.

Don’t give it five minutes if you’re not going to give it five years.

My experiences remind me that it’s those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.

Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

What are your thoughts on these Monday Motivation Quotes?

Let's face it, there are days when you feel like quitting. Regardless of your achievements, you will ultimately burn out. If a long week has you down, don't panic.

There is always time to refocus and find inspiration to build a creative and energetic mindset. Use these Monday motivational quotes to prepare for greatness. Make it a good Monday!

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