Mondays can be challenging, but they also represent a fresh start, full of possibilities and opportunities. To help you conquer the day and set the tone for the rest of the week, here are some motivational quotes that will ignite your drive and help you get into gear!
Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.” Arnold Schwarzenegger
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” Madeleine Albright
Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.” E. Jean Carroll
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” Theodore Roosevelt
Forever is composed of nows.” Emily Dickinson
You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.” Amy Poehler
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.” Daphne du Maurier
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow.” Jerry Spinelli
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” Will Rogers
Don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” Ella Fitzgerald
There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.” Virginia Woolf
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” Emily Dickinson
“Teamwork makes the dream work.” John C. Maxwell
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” Phil Jackson
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” Ryunosuke Satoro
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” Ken Blanchard
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” Harry Truman
“Success is best when it’s shared.” Howard Schultz
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” Henry Ford
“Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” Mattie Stepanek
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” Babe Ruth
“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” Steve Jobs
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” Michael Jordan
“Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” Patrick Lencioni
“We rise by lifting others.” Robert Ingersoll
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” Vince Lombardi
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” Sam Levenson
“The future depends on what you do today.” Mahatma Gandhi
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Steve Jobs
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” Zig Ziglar
“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” Helen Hayes
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden
“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” Mark Twain
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” Tim Notke
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” Albert Schweitzer
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” Will Rogers
“Dream big and dare to fail.” Norman Vaughan
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” Zig Ziglar
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C.S. Lewis
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” Dalai Lama
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” William Butler Yeats
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” Confucius
“Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua J. Marine
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” Roy T. Bennett
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” Abraham Lincoln
