113 Monday Motivation Quotes (Start your week positive)

It’s Monday morning and your alarm is going off — are you excited for the fresh start and the possibilities that the upcoming week holds for you?

Or do you want to rewind back to the weekend to enjoy a little more bit time off from your Monday through Friday reality?

If you struggle to conquer the Monday blues each week, and you aren’t jumping energetically out of your bed to start your week, it’s time to make a change.

One way to overcome the blues is to have some inspiring quotes for Monday on hand that allow you to push your first workday of the week sluggishness aside.

There is a reason that most heart attacks occur on a Monday.

The truth is, the stress of returning to your normal routine or going back to work after the weekend with only the vision of the long week ahead of you actually poses a threat to your health.

Research has shown that deaths from heart attacks occur in a pattern during the week, with the rarest occurrences being on Saturdays and Sundays.

But on Mondays, adult men have heart attacks 20% more often than any other day of the week, and adult women have them 15% more often than other days.

Monday is a stressful day and oftentimes, we want to turn the other way and make a run for it.

However, with the right motivation, you can turn that attitude around and get excited for Monday to begin so you can feel a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment in your life.

What Are Monday Motivations?

They are anything you want them to be, as long as they lift you up and give you the motivation to make your Mondays awesome rather than manic.

Here are some ways people prepare for a magnificent Monday every week:

• Set goals on Sunday evening to accomplish on Monday.
• Set goals on Monday morning for the entire week.
• Turn on upbeat music at home or in the car on Monday morning.
• Begin the morning with visualization, meditation, or prayer.
• Begin the morning with a workout.
• Eat a healthy, filling breakfast.
• Wake up early enough to get to work early and prepare for the day.

And, of course, reading through our list of Monday inspirational quotes and even journaling about them, can put you in the best mindset to have an amazing and productive week.

Ok Monday morning warriors, it’s time to get your groove on and set the tone for the day. Everyone knows that the workweek can be rough.

In fact, each day presents a new challenge. On Mondays, you need that jolt of energy to start the week.

By the time it is Wednesday, you need some inspiration to get over that hump. And by Friday, your mind and body are both begging for some rest.

We all need the motivation to start the week, whether you start your week off by heading to work, going to the gym, or getting your kids up and ready for school.

Read through this list of motivational Monday quotes and consider how the words can sink into that brilliant brain of yours. 

Monday Motivation Quotes to Kickstart Your Week

1. “I know it’s Monday, but it’s also a new day, a new week, and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.” – Michael Ely

2. “Mondays are the start of the workweek which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!” – David Dweck

3. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer

4. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

5. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs

6. “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

7. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” — Charles Dickens

8. “Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day” – Dalai Lama

9. “Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up & chase them.” – Kristin at Sophisticated Gal

10. “You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” – Paolo Coehlo

11. “This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen.” – Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

12. “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson

13. “Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.” — Muhammad Ali

14. “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi

15. “It’s not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.” – Brian White

16. “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

17. “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

18. “Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday” — Brian Tracy

19. “Monday won’t be so gloomy if you believe that something good is always bound to happen.” – Unknown

20. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs

21. “Good things don’t come to those who wait. Good things come to those who pursue the goals and dreams they believe in…Happy Monday!” – Venus Rivers

22. “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

23. “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.” – Maya Angelou

24. “Mondays are the start of the workweek which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!“ – David Dweck

25. “Mondays can be a real downer. But think of it this way. Was there anything about last week that you didn’t like? Whatever you did not get to do last week, guess what? You have a chance to start over this week and this week starts with Monday. Give yourself a chance to do the things that you did not get to do.” – Unknown

26. “Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” – Kevyn Aucoin

27. “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 – then make that day count!“ – Steve Maraboli

28. “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

29. “Forget yesterday – it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow – you haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift – today.“ – Steve Maraboli

30. “The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” – Benjamin Mays

31. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

32. “People who discipline themselves to get up and do things they don’t necessarily love or like doing, but do it regardless to succeed are people who will get the results and the success they are looking for.” ― Jeanette Coron

33. “Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow.“ – Jerry Spinelli

34. “Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t ‘should’ve’ done something. You can only do something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!“ – Steve Maraboli

35. “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real“ – Niels Bohr

36. “This morning do something different: When you wake up in the morning, wake your forgotten and forsaken dreams up as well, wake them up like an insisting rooster!“ – Mehmet Murat ildan

37. “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

38. “The critical ingredient is getting off […] 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.“ – Nolan Bushnell

39. “Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz

40. “Good morning is not just a word, its an action and a belief to live the entire day well. Morning is the time when you set the tone for the rest of the day. Set it right!” – Fain Blake

41. “Monday is a fresh start. It’s never too late to dig in and begin a new journey of success.” – Unknown

42. “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.” – Leggy Saul

43. “Dear Monday, thanks for having the word “mon” in you. That’s French for “mine,” in case you weren’t aware, Monday, but it makes me think of you more as “my day,” and frankly, that sounds like a much more promising start to the week.” – Unknown

44. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine

45. “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

46. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

47.  “Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.” – Will Rogers

48. “Forget about what you have to do for a second. How do you want to be for today?” — Jane Scudder

49. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

50. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” …so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.” – Leo Tolstoy

51. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

52. “In order to succeed, you can’t be afraid to fail. Just do it and don’t let anybody tell you you can’t.” — Faith Hill

53. “Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” – Hal Borland

54. “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.” – Helen Keller

55. “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

56. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. ” – Les Brown

57. “A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee

58. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey

59. “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 Wilson Watts

60. “When people go to work, they shouldn’t leave their hearts at home.” – Betty Bender

61. “If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing, success will be yours.” – Ray Kroc

62. “Love your work. If you can’t love it, then leave it. If you can’t leave it, then love it.” – Unknown

63. “Wake up on Monday and start your day with a lot of awesomeness and you will get happiness back.” – Jim Butcher

64. “If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.” – Jim Henson

65. “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

66. “I have to go to work on Mondays and yes everyone hates Mondays. But I look at it a little differently. I don’t have to work, I GET to work. I am blessed to have a job while many don’t have one.“ – Dinky Manuel

67. “I never understood the glorification of Fridays and weekends. I don’t want to build a life and career where I spend five days a week waiting for the weekend. I want to enjoy my life, and don’t wish any weekday away. I want each day to matter to me in some way. I love my life. Every day. That’s the spirit we should convey all around us.“ – Akilnathan Logeswaran

68. “To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.” — Sister Mary Lauretta

69. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

70. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

71. “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

72. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

73. “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso

74. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

 75. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell

76. “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

77. “This is your Monday morning reminder that you are powerful beyond measure, that you are capable of pretty much anything you are willing to work for, and that you could change your life today.” – Unknown

78. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell

79. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

80. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

81. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.’ — Confucius

82. “Life is a fairytale starring you. You have the power to write your own story and be the hero of it, too.” — Joelle Speranza

83. “Someday is not a day of the week.” — Denise Brennan-Nelson

84. “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St. Francis of Assisi

85. “If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.” — Jen Sincero

86. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” – Dalai Lama

87. “My experiences remind me that it’s those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.” — Kelly Clarkson

88. “The most effective way to do it is to do it.” — Amelia Earhart

89. “In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.” — Shakira

90. “Don’t ask if your dream is crazy, ask if it’s crazy enough.” — Lena Waithe

91. “Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.” — Danielle LaPorte

92. “Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist—while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!” — Lori Greiner

93. “I have the same goal I’ve had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.” — Madonna

94. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — Lolly Daskal

95. “Know this one great truth: you are in control of your own life.” — Rachel Hollis

96. “When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” – Ella Woodward

97. “Monday is for people with a mission.” – Christina Imre

98. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” — Beverly Sills

99. “It’s not the lucky ones who succeed. It’s the ones who decide to go after what they really want.” — Shaina Leis

100. “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

101. “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” — Jane Smiley

102. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” — Florence Nightingale

103. “Have a dream, chase it down, jump over every single hurdle, and run through fire and ice to get there.” — Whitney Wolfe Herd

104. “Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.” — Stephanie LaHart

105. “The universe might respect the law of attraction, but it respects a good hustle even more.” — Lilly Singh

106. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…” – Marcus Aurelius

107. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer

108. “Success is to wake up every morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life.” – Ken Poirot

109. “Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’ – Eckhart Tolle

110. “Begin the week with momentum, and you’ll look back with great satisfaction on all you’ve achieved.” – Skip Prichard

111. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein

112. “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

113. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John R. Wooden

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Final Thoughts

Great – you’ve read them. But please don’t stop there. These Monday motivation quotes for work and life won’t do you any good if you don’t take action and put the words to work.

Wouldn’t it be great if your Monday morning inspiration wasn’t limited to caffeinated drinks and the lure of a paycheck?

Coffee and money are powerful, but they aren’t always enough.

Especially on Mondays.

This is why we curated this list of Monday inspirational quotes.

And I bet you can think of others who could use the extra boost at the start of a new workweek.

Which of these quotes help you sit up a little straighter? Or which of them opened your mind to some new inspiration?

May you enjoy sharing them and making Monday better for those you meet today. And may the day’s blessings outnumber its challenges.