It’s Monday morning. A new week lies ahead of you.
Do you feel tired? Unmotivated and wishing the weekend had one more day?
Or do you feel energized and ready to go?
No matter what kind of start you’re having to your Monday, today’s post can give you a boost and help you focus.
This is 120 of the funniest, most positive and motivational short Monday morning quotes.
I hope they’ll make the rest of your morning even better and help you to make this a great day and week in your life.
Short Monday Morning Quotes for a Great Day
“This is your Monday morning reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you.”
– Unknown
“I like sunrises, Mondays, and new seasons. God seems to be saying, ‘with me, you can always start afresh.’”
– Ada Lum
“Mondays are the start of the work week, which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!”
– David Dweck
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
– Rumi
“Monday is for people with a mission.”
– Cristina Imre
“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
“The sun himself is weak when he first rises; and gathers strength and courage as the day goes on.”
– Charles Dickens
“Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life.”
– Ken Poirot
“When Monday rolls around, have a short plan for the day. Don’t spend too much time thinking.”
– Rip Miller
“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
“Every morning is a revolution against the darkness.”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
– J. B. Priestley
“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.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.”
– Doe Zantamata
“Each day provides its own gifts.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.”
– E. B. White
“First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.”
– Ovid
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
– Hans Christian Andersen
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama
“Monday, Monday, so good to me; Monday morning, it was all I hoped it would be.”
– John Phillips
Short Monday Morning Quotes for Motivation at Work
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
– Estée Lauder
“The challenge of every Monday is to maintain the same vitality in each and every day of the week.”
– Byron Pulsifer
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn
“Think of many things; do one.”
– Portuguese proverb
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar
“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
– Zig Ziglar
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
– Maya Angelou
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
– Jack Canfield
“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
– Honoré de Balzac
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
– Farrah Gray
“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.”
– Joel Arthur Barker
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
– Ralph Marston
“Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”
– Muhammad Ali
“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.”
– Larry Page
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Steve Jobs
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in, and day-out.”
– Robert Collier
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– A. A. Milne
“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.”
– Chris Grosser
Funny and Short Monday Morning Quotes for Less Stress
“May your coffee be strong and your Mondays be short.”
– Unknown
“The only good Monday is a Monday in bed.”
– Lee Horton
“I really need a day in between Sunday and Monday.”
– Unknown
“Candy is nature’s way of making up for Mondays.”
– Rebecca Gober
“Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.”
– Tom Wilson
“If each day is a gift, I’d like to know where to return Mondays!”
– John Wagner
“Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”
– Jim Davis
“Monday isn’t that bad to be honest. What makes it bad is living in it.”
– Unknown
“Everyday is Monday for me… right up until Friday.”
– Sandra Shea
“It’s just another manic Monday. I wish it was Sunday. ‘Cause that’s my fun day. I don’t have to run day.”
– Prince Rogers Nelson
“So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends – but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more positive partnership.”
– Julio Alexi Genao
“Mondays are a lot like getting fat. They make you feel sad, sometimes angry and there is not much scope for liking either fat or Mondays for any reason.”
– Garry Moll
“This has been such a Monday! I wish I stayed in bed, and I wish that yesterday had never happened.”
– Lisa Mantchev
“The awfulness of Monday mornings is the world’s greatest common denominator. To the millionaire and the coolie it is the same, because there can be nothing worse.”
– Kenneth Fearing
“Monday Morning Blues? Why not change the color of your Monday to yellow and brighten up the coming week?”
– Kanika Saxena
“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.”
– Dinky Manuel
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
– Olin Miller
“The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.”
– Jerry Della Femina
“The biggest thrill wasn’t in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.”
– Art Rooney
“What about Monday? That could be our one day we look at things the same way, and wear funny shoes.”
– Kevin Dalton
“Okay, it’s Monday, but who said Mondays have to suck? Be a rebel and have a great day anyway.”
– Kimberly Jiménez
“In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning.”
– Jeff Lindsay
“What do sharks do on Monday mornings? They get up and start biting. That’s me.”
– Gemma Collins
“There isn’t a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.”
– Anton Chekhov
Short and Positive Monday Morning Quotes for a Great Week
“When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.”
– Ella Woodward
“Every Monday you wake up is a day to make a change.”
– Irvine Welsh
“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
“For me, Monday represents a fresh start to the week. It is the day where the slate from the previous week is wiped clean.”
– Allen Smith
“Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.”
– Sukhraj S. Dhillon
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”
– Nido Qubein
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
– Colin Powell
“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.”
– Albert Einstein
“You are in control. Never allow your Monday to be manic.”
– Andrea L’Artiste
“Monday is a fresh start. It’s never too late to dig in and begin a new journey of success.”
– Unknown
“Monday is the day that opens up the week for many opportunities.”
– R.K. Narayan
“There are many opportunities in every single day, and Monday is the perfect day to seize them all.”
– Isabella Koldras
“This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen.”
– Gabriel García Márquez
“Monday, the start of a new week, with brand-new opportunities to enjoy all that life has to offer.”
– Audrey Carlan
“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
– Paulo Coelho
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“A small shift in perspective and everything falls into place.”
– Jessica Brody
“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails.”
– Elizabeth Edwards
“It’s not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.”
– Brian White
“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
– Dr Roopleen
“As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.”
– Akiroq Brost
“Wake up on Monday and start your day with a lot of awesomeness and you will get happiness back.”
– Jim Butcher
“Be the Sun that brightens up everyone’s morning.”
– Aakanksha Das
“I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over, so I refuse to have a bad day.”
– Paul Henderson
Short and Inspirational Monday Morning Quotes to Share with Loved Ones
“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
– Mary Anne Radmacher
“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.”
– Mme Du Deffand
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”
– Les Brown
“You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’”
– George Bernard Shaw
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
– Maya Angelou
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank
“Just say yes. Just say there’s nothing holding you back.”
– Zoe Sugg
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
– Michael Jordan
“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
“Believe on Monday the way you believe on Sunday.”
– Rita Schiano
“Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.”
– Robert H. Schuller
“Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.”
– Rosa Parks
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
– Jamie Paolinetti
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.”
– Sara Blakely
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
– Warren Buffett
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
– Booker T. Washington
“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
– Steve Jobs
“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning.”
– Miles Davis
“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
– Margaret Thatcher
“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
“When you meet a new day, take a deep breath and tell yourself, ‘I am new in this day.’”
– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Want more help to make this a great day and week? Then check out these new week blessings, the positive Monday quotes in this post and also this one filled with funny Monday quotes.