50 Awesome Monday Quotes to Kick-Start Your Week!

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I just need to read something in black and white to get out of my weekend slump and get mentally pumped up for the week ahead.

I figured that today’s a good a time as any to do a post on some kick-start quotes – especially since most of us are back to work and some of us are already thinking about our next holiday… or the weekend for that matter.

So sit back and relax over your cup of coffee (or tea, or glass of veggie juice, etc.), and find one or two quotes that grab you. Ones that are going to give you that extra boost of inspiration, motivation, creativity, determination or confidence you need to go swinging into the day ahead. Enjoy!

Monday quotes to power up your week

1. People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. – Apple Computers
2. You must be the change you want to see in the world. – M.K. Gandhi
3. In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. – Sid Caesar
4. Death is not the greatest loss in life; the greatest loss is what dies inside while you’re still alive. – Unknown
5. You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your life’s story for you. – Unknown
6. The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do. – Unknown
7. Good things don’t come to those who wait. Good things come to those who pursue the goals and dreams they believe in. – Unknown
8. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. – Oprah Winfrey
9. 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
10. Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there’s a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living. – Unknown
11. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain. – Unknown
12. A mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work if it isn’t open. – Frank Zappa
13. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. – Dennis P. Kimbro
14. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar
15. If not us, who? If not now, when? – John F. Kennedy
16. Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. – Dale Carnegie
17. The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time. – Joe Girard
18. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. – Marilyn Monroe
19. No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying. – Unknown
20. If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay. – Unknown
21. Making one person smile can change the world – maybe not the whole world, but their world. – Unknown
22. As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.- Unknown
23. Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you. – Unknown
24. If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. – Unknown
25. Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is. – Unknown
26. In life, if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything. – Unknown
27. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come. –Unknown
28. You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now. –Unknown
29. People are more what they hide than what they show. – Unknown
30. Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you. – Unknown
31. When someone tells you, “ You’ve changed,” it might simply be because you’ve stopped living your life their way. – Unknown
32. Be happy. Be yourself. If others don’t like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn’t about pleasing everybody. – Unknown
33. When you’re up, your friends know who you are. When you’re down, you know who your friends are. –Unknown
34. No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs. – Unknown
35. Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money. – Unknown
36. What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. – Unknown
37. You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one. – Unknown
38. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
39. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. – Peter F. Drucker
40. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss
41. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso
43. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. – Robert Brault
44. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. – Confucius
45. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill
46. The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. You make a living by what you earn; you make a life by what you give. – Winston Churchill
48. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu
49. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain
50. Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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