136 Funny and Inspiring Monday Work Quotes

Mondays often feel like a challenge, but they also mark a fresh start.

These motivational Monday work quotes inspire you to begin the week with focus, confidence, and energy.

Remember, every great achievement begins with showing up and giving your best, even on Monday mornings.

Short Monday Work Quotes

“This is your Monday morning reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you.” —Unknown

“The best weeks start on Monday.” —Nice Peter

“Hey, I know it’s Monday. But it’s also a new day and a new week. And in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.” —Michael Ealy

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

“I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify—and never miss an angle.” —Walt Disney

“Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.” —Elon Musk

“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” —John Wooden

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

“Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” —Muhammad Ali

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

“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.” —Miles Davis

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” —Ralph Marston

“Mondays are tough only for those people who don’t know how to spend them cheerfully. Get up and have fun today!” —Unknown

“You don’t need a new year to make a change. All you need is a Monday.” —Unknown

“The worst Monday is the one that gets wasted for nothing.” —Unknown

“Monday is for people with a mission.” —Cristina Imre

“There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can’t wait to go to work? And when you’re ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, ‘I can’t wait to go home?’” —Chuck Schumer

“Monday is the day that opens up the week for many opportunities.” —R.K. Narayan

“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. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workday lives of meaningless toin and suffering.” —Jeff Lindsay

“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

“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

“Don’t let a day of the week have so much power over your happiness. Happy Monday!” —Andrea L’Artiste

“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” —Joseph Barbara

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” —Roy T. Bennett

“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

“Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.” —Brian Tracy

“Everyday is Monday….till Friday.” —Viktor VolksPrater

“Mondays are the start of the work week which offers new beginnings 52 times a year!” —David Dweck

“You are in control. Never allow your Monday to be manic.” —Andrea L’Artiste

“Mondays are mundane, like Tuesdays minus 24 hours.” —Jarod Kintz

“Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.” —Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code.” —Dan Salomon

Motivational Monday Work Quotes

Motivational Monday Work Quotes

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” —Unknown

“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” —Audrey Hepburn

“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

“May your coffee be strong and your Mondays be short.” —Unknown

“When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it’s Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.” —Edmond Mbiaka

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

“It’s Monday. Get a new perspective. Whatever obstacle you’re facing, it’s not permanent.” —Unknown

“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The challenge of every Monday is to maintain the same vitality in each and every day of the week.” —Byron Pulsifer

“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. It is a day of new beginnings.” —Allen Smith

“Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.” —Patrick Suskind

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” —Colin Powell

“Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.” —Tyler Perry

“Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.” —Gertrude B. Elion

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” —Harry Golden

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” —Jim Rohn

“Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.” —Haile Gebrselassie

“Hard work is an essential element in tracking down and perfecting a strategy or in executing it.” —Charlie Munger

“Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.” —Lou Holtz

“Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want.” —Prabakaran Thirumalai

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” —Olin Miller

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” —Albert Einstein

“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” —Jim Rohn

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” —Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“What do sharks do on Monday mornings? They get up and start biting. That’s me.” —Gemma Collins

“Every Monday you wake up is a day to make a change.” —Irvine Welsh

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” —Henry Ford

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” —Napoleon Hill

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” —Vince Lombardi

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” —Stephen King

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

“Delegate your work. Stop spending dollar time on penny jobs.” —Mary Kay Ash

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” —Dale Carnegie

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” —Estee Lauder

“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No Excuses.” —Kobe Bryant

“Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” —Iain Duncan Smith

“Go and get your things. Dreams mean work.” —Paolo Coelho

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

“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” —Lowell Thomas

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” —Beverly Sills

“Work hard. Play hard. Be kind.” —Harry Styles

“Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus.” —Helen Hanson

Funny Monday Quotes for Work

Funny Monday Quotes for Work

“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

“Like the song says, rainy days and Mondays always get ya down.” —Haruki Murakami

“Monday is a sloppy umbrella day, which makes everybody a little blue.” —George Leedy

“Monday isn’t that bad to be honest. What makes it bad is living in it.” —Day

“Today I am doing better than yesterday, and tomorrow I hope to be doing better than I am today. And two days from now? Well, that’s a Monday, so I’ll be feeling shitty.” —Jarod Kintz

“There isn’t a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.” —Anton Chekhov

“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” —Leslie Nielsen

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” —George Carlin

“As I have gotten older and wiser I discovered that there are six things that I really loved about my job. Pay day, lunch time, quitting time, vacation time, holidays, and of course retirement.” —Tom Goins

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” —Oscar Wilde

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” —Zig Ziglar

“The reward for good work is more work.” —Francesca Elisia

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” —Charles Lamb

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” —Edgar Bergen

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” —Jerome K. Jerome

“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” —Joe Girard

“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” —Don Herold

“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers

“Give me a treat, or leave me alone. It’s Monday.” —Paige

“What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn’t matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday.” —Judah Smith

“Every Monday morning is new hope.” —Maira Kalman

“The biggest thrill wasn’t in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.” —Art Rooney

“Imagine having Mondays as a holiday and then it would be the best thing. Will someone please assist me in making it a official holiday and solve all our Monday blues.” —Rolland Mars

“What about Monday — that could be our one day we look at things the same way, and wear funny shoes.” —Kevin Dalton

“Mondays are a good day to make statements, not Friday.” —Ernie Els

“There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday.” —Thomas Bernhard

“It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you’d relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.” —Maggie Stiefvater

“Don’t mess with anybody on a Monday. It’s a bad, bad day.” —Louise Fitzhugh

“If only one of the presidential candidates would make it part of his platform to do something about making Monday part of the weekend. I think he would get a lot of votes.” —Thomas Wayne

“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.” —Gary Moll

“Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.” —Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“All men tend to become angry and irritated on the start of the week. It is the start of the week but is the end of all fun and happiness in life.” —Venus Rivers

“On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.” —H. Allen Smith

“This has been such a Monday! I wish I stayed in bed, and I wish that yesterday had never happened.” —Lisa Mantchev

“Monday is great for becoming too busy to die.” —Roy Station

“There are no miracles on Mondays.” —Amy Neftzger

“If each day is a gift, I would like to know where I can return Mondays.” —John Wagner

“On Monday, when the sun is hot, I wonder to myself a lot. Now is it true, or is it not, that what is which and which is what?” —A.A. Hodge

“Work in a way that you look forward to Monday mornings.” —Swami Parthasarathy

“You don’t want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I’ve done later in the week.” —Ike Barinholtz

“Candy is nature’s way of making up for Mondays.” —Rebecca Gober

“Don’t let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You’ve got to set a high bar.” —Antonio Villaraigosa

“Monday morning you sure look fine.” —Lindsey Buckingham

“Believe on Monday the way you believe on Sunday.” —Rita Schiano

“Monday, Monday, so good to me; Monday morning, it was all I hoped it would be.” —John Phillips

“Okay, it’s Monday but who said Mondays have to suck? Be a rebel and have a great day anyway.” —Kimberly Jiménez

“Find a job you like and you will add five days to every week.” —H. Jackson Brown

“Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I’m a man of simple pleasures, really.” —Arthur Darvill

“Last Monday nite / I saw a fight / Between Wednesday and Thursday / Over Saturday nite…” —John Prine

“It is a custom in Ireland, among shoemakers, if they intoxicate themselves on Sunday, to do no work on Monday… they call it making a Saint Monday.” —Maria Edgeworth

“Monday, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.” —Ambrose Bierce

“As Monday goes, so goes the week,” dames say. Refreshed, renewed, use well the initial day.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Red beans were traditionally cooked while the Monday wash was drying on the line…” —Rima Collin and Richard Collin

“My good man, Crillon, hang yourself for not having been at my side last Monday at the greatest event that’s ever been seen…” —Henri IV (of Navarre)

“You know you’re getting older when every day seems like Monday.” —Kitty Carlisle

“He who is not tipsy on Sunday is not worth shaking hands with on Monday.” —Albanian Proverb

“Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.” —Tom Wilson

“Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you’re not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, ‘Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?’” —Peter Gibbons

“Beautiful. Relaxed. But always in the back of your mind, there’s the knowledge that it’ll soon be Monday.” —Sharon Carter

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