100+ Inspiring Monday Quotes to Boost Your Workweek

Monday can set the tone for the entire week, making motivational quotes for work especially valuable. Starting your Monday right isn't just about creating a positive mindset but also about driving productivity and fostering success. We've curated a collection of quotes designed to inspire, refocus, and energize you as you kickoff your week. From conquering challenges to finding joy in your tasks, these quotes will help transform your Monday blues into motivation and action.

Motivational Monday Quotes

• "The future depends on what you do today." — Mahatma Gandhi
• "Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!" — David Dweck
• "If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it." — Olin Miller
• "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." — Zig Ziglar
• "The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on." — Charles Dickens
• "Believe you can and you're halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt
• "Take a deep breath and start again."
• "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." — Walt Disney
• "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." — Robert Collier
• "Monday is a good day to have a great day!"
• "Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!" — David Dweck
• "Either you run the day or the day runs you." — Jim Rohn

Inspirational Work Quotes for Monday

• "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." — Steve Jobs
• "Opportunities don't happen, you create them." — Chris Grosser
• "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." — Mark Twain
• "Mondays are for fresh starts."
• "The best way to predict your future is to create it." — Peter Drucker
• "Failure is not the opposite of success: it’s part of success." — Arianna Huffington
• "Action is the foundational key to all success." — Pablo Picasso
• "Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." — Richard Branson
• "Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up." — Isabelle Lafleche
• "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." — Henry David Thoreau
• "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." — Sam Levenson
• "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." — Arthur Ashe

Positive Monday Work Quotes

• "Everything you want is on the other side of fear." — Jack Canfield
• "Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." — Walt Whitman
• "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." — C.S. Lewis
• "A year from now you may wish you had started today." — Karen Lamb
• "Turn every Monday into your bonfire of success and happiness!"
• "The biggest thrill wasn’t in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday." — Art Rooney
• "Believe you can and you’re halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt
• "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." — Joshua J. Marine
• "Your work is discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it." — Buddha
• "Either you run the day or the day runs you." — Jim Rohn
• "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• "Nothing works unless you do." — Maya Angelou

Monday Quotes for Team Motivation

• "Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." — Vince Lombardi
• "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." — Michael Jordan
• "The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." — Phil Jackson
• "None of us is as smart as all of us." — Ken Blanchard
• "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success." — Babe Ruth
• "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." — Helen Keller
• "Teamwork makes the dream work."
• "Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there." — Virginia Burden
• "It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed." — Napoleon Hill
• "When ‘I’ is replaced by ‘We,’ even illness becomes wellness."
• "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." — Henry Ford
• "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." — Henry Ford

Encouraging Monday Quotes for Work

• "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston Churchill
• "Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" — Mary Anne Radmacher
• "The hard days are what make you stronger." — Aly Raisman
• "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." — Vidal Sassoon
• "New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings." — Lao Tzu
• "Every day brings new choices." — Martha Beck
• "Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas." — Charles Kettering
• "Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t." — Rikki Rogers
• "Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." — C.S. Lewis
• "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." — Eleanor Roosevelt
• "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." — William James
• "The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it." — Amanda Gorman

Uplifting Quotes about Monday Work Challenges

• "Difficulties mastered are opportunities won." — Winston Churchill
• "Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today." — Will Rogers
• "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." — Henry Ford
• "Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves." — Dale Carnegie
• "What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." — Dale Carnegie
• "No pressure, no diamonds." — Thomas Carlyle
• "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." — Maya Angelou
• "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." — Roy T. Bennett
• "Leap, and the net will appear." — John Burroughs
• "Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get." — W. P. Kinsella
• "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." — Winston Churchill

Quotes to Kickstart Your Monday Work

• "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." — Zig Ziglar
• "Dream big and dare to fail." — Norman Vaughan
• "Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions." — Albert Einstein
• "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." — Lao Tzu
• "Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." — Farrah Gray
• "The only limits you have are the limits you believe." — Wayne Dyer
• "To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work." — Sister Mary Lauretta
• "Once you choose hope, anything’s possible." — Christopher Reeve
• "It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop." — Confucius
• "Begin anywhere." — John Cage
• "The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something." — Seth Godin
• "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." — Og Mandino

Positive Vibe Quotes for Monday

• "The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it." — Mother Teresa
• "Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived." — Eleanor Roosevelt
• "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." — Marcus Aurelius
• "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." — Mahatma Gandhi
• "Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too."
• "The beginning is always today." — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• "To succeed, we must first believe that we can." — Nikos Kazantzakis
• "When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love." — Marcus Aurelius
• "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." — Oscar Wilde
• "Choose to be optimistic, it feels better." — Dalai Lama
• "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." — Rumi
• "Joy is not in things; it is in us." — Richard Wagner

Monday Success Quotes for Work

• "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." — Albert Schweitzer
• "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." — Walt Disney
• "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." — Albert Einstein
• "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit." — Conrad Hilton
• "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." — Roy T. Bennett
• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — Confucius
• "Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure." — Aisha Tyler
• "Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time." — Arnold H. Glasow
• "Opportunities don't happen. You create them." — Chris Grosser
• "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." — John D. Rockefeller
• "Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be." — Zig Ziglar
• "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." — Robert Collier

Optimistic Monday Quotes for Hard Work

• "I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." — Michael Jordan
• "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." — Theodore Roosevelt
• "There are no traffic jams on the extra mile." — Zig Ziglar
• "Quality is not an act, it is a habit." — Aristotle
• "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking." — William Butler Yeats
• "If you can dream it, you can do it." — Walt Disney
• "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." — Winston Churchill
• "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." — Steve Jobs
• "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." — Walter Elliot
• "The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well." — John D. Rockefeller Jr.
• "Fall seven times, stand up eight." — Japanese Proverb
• "Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." — Shiv Khera

Final words

As we navigate through the challenges and triumphs of our working lives, Mondays offer us an opportunity for renewal and determination. The quotes selected here are powerful reminders of the strength, passion, and creativity within us that can turn daunting Mondays into days of accomplishment and positivity. They inspire us to embrace our work with renewed vigor, fostering not just productivity but also personal growth and joy. By infusing Mondays with optimism and purpose, we set a positive trajectory for the rest of the week. So, use these quotes as your catalyst for success and happiness as you embark on your new week. Remember, every Monday is a chance to enthusiastically dive into what you love, driving your dreams towards reality.