MONDAY MOTIVATION

 

  • Every morning, you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them. — Carmelo Anthony

  • Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. —Dalai Lama

  • Every morning, you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • The sun himself is weak when he first rises; and gathers strength and courage as the day gets 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

  • 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

  • Either you run the day, or the day runs you. — Jim Rohn

Quotes about taking the first step

  • You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." — Walt Disney

  • The secret of getting ahead is getting started. — Mark Twain

  • The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult. — Mme Du Deffand

  • The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. — Jacob Bronowski

  • How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — Anne Frank

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

  • Don’t count the days. Make the days count. — Muhammad Ali

  • Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. — Joel Arthur Barker

  • Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. — Robert Kennedy

Quotes about dreaming big

  • Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. — Farrah Gray

  • You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. — C.S. Lewis

  • If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one! — Dolly Parton

  • 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

  • You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’ — George Bernard Shaw

  • 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

  • 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

Quotes about having confidence

  • Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you. — Beyoncé

  • The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. — Ayn Rand

  • Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  • You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. — Maya Angelou

  • We must travel in the direction of our fear. — John Berryman

  • We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. — Dr. Henry Link

  • Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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