Days of the Week in Quotes: Monday
The sleepy beginning of the workweek
You’ve had a great weekend and you feel recharged. But that doesn’t mean you’re happy as the alarm clock goes off and you have to drag your tired body to the shower to get ready for work. These quotes are about Monday, the sleepy beginning of the workweek.
1. “When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” -Ella Woodward
2. “Monday. The cruelest month.” -Eric Jarosinski
3. “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 Ely
4. “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
5. “This is your Monday morning reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you.” -Unknown
6. “What about Monday? That could be our one day we look at things the same way, and wear funny shoes.” -Kevin Dalton
7. “Don’t let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You’ve got to set a high bar.” -Antonio Villaraigosa
8. “I love Saturday, I love Sunday, but how could anyone ever love Monday?” -Ogden Nash
9. “Monday morning you sure look fine.” -Lindsey Buckingham
10. “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
11. “Mondays are the start of the workweek, which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!” -David Dweck
12. “Monday is a great for becoming too busy to die.” -Roy Station
13. “I like to think I’m like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning.” -Don Rickles
14. “Monday Morning, fair or bleak, Holds the Key to all the Week.” -Arthur Guiterman
15. “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
16. “I really need a day in between Sunday and Monday.” -Unknown
17. “Okay, it’s Monday, but who said Mondays have to suck? Be a rebel and have a great day anyway.” -Kimberly Jiménez
18. “Mindful Monday Humans, May your coffee kick in before reality does.” -Napz Cherub Pellazo
19. “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
20. “Since no Mondays are Tuesdays, the Mondays which are Tuesdays are also Fridays.” -John B. Watson
21. “Believe on Monday the way you believe on Sunday.” -Rita Schiano
22. “If each day is a gift, I’d like to know where to return Mondays.” -John Wagner
23. “It was the kind of Sunday to make one ache for Monday morning.” -Joan Didion
24. “Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life.” -Unknown
25. “New moon on Monday And a fire dance through the night I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite.” -Duran Duran
26. “You are in control. Never allow your Monday to be manic.” -Andrea L’Artiste
27. “Monday. Given that it means ‘day of the moon,’ you’d think there’d be more butts involved.” -Wataru Watari
28. “How are Mondays even still legal?” -Keith Wynn
29. “Sunday morning my head is bad. But it’s worth all the times I had. But I’ve got to go and get some rest. For Monday is a mess!” -Dave Bartholomew
30. “Monday is the yardstick against which all that is unpleasant is measured.” -Lou Brutus
31. “Mondays are peculiarly appropriated to the confraternities of the souls in purgatory.” -G.D. Emerline
32. “I hate January, it’s the Monday of months.” -Unknown
33. “You make me feel Monday is Saturday.” -Avijeet Das
34. “Thank God for our fun days; Thank God for our Mondays! Let’s not mope and be sad, Let’s rejoice and be glad!” -William Arthur Ward
35. “There are no miracles on Mondays.” -Amy Neftzeger
36. “Monday is for people with a mission. Those who favor vacations, not weekends.” -Cristina Imre
37. “That which is stolen from God on Sunday is given to the devil on Monday.” -James Lendall Basford
38. “This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen.” -Gabriel García Márquez
39. “Monday gives me the winter chills in summer. So have a great day!” -Anthony T. Hincks
40. “Monday — Meh-day.” -Terri Guillemets
41. “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
42. “Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.” -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
43. “Work on Monday? My mind is telling me no, but my wallet says yes.” -Internet meme
44. “Mondays are tough only for those people who don’t know how to spend them cheerfully. Get up and have fun today!” -Unknown
45. “Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life.” -Ken Poirot
46. “Let’s make a scientific analysis, Let’s diagnose this Monday paralysis…. What you do on weekends, you claim to adore it. But Monday’s the day that you suffer for it.” -Ogden Nash
47. “Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.” -Tom Wilson
48. “There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday.” -Thomas Bernhard
49. “The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning.” -Sandy Cooley
50. “Mondays are mundane, like Tuesdays minus 24 hours.” -Jarod Kintz
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Sources:
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