20 Encouraging Quotes That Will Inspire You to Adult Today

It’s Monday! YAY! Are you ready? Ready to be awesome? Ready to take on the week? Ready to grab life by the horns? Is that a thing?

Oh well.

Monday has gotten a bad reputation. It’s become known as a bad day for adulting.

By the way, did you know that adulting is an actual word/term? By definition it’s “to do grown up things and hold responsibilities such as, a 9-5 job, a mortgage/rent, a car payment, or anything else that makes one think of grown ups.”

Oh how I wish I could go back to being a child for a minute…..

Aaaaaaannnd I’m back.

I’m not a big sappy person, but I collected 20 great encouraging quotes for those that need some encouragement (not the liquid caffeine kind), but words of encouragement.

Let’s go do this! We’re coming for you Monday! Watch out!

1. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” ~Rabindranath Tagore

2. “When you let your light shine, you unconsciously give others permission to do the same.” ~Nelson Mandela

3. “Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” ~Anne Frank

4. “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” ~Alexander Graham Bell

5. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

6. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” ~Victor Kiam

7. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” ~Wayne Dyer

8. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ~William James

9. “I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.” ~Robert H. Schuller

10. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” ~Winston Churchill

11. “If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” ~Harold Kushner

12. “Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” ~Alphonse Karr

13. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ~Aristotle

14. “People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.” ~Stephen Hawking

15. “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.” ~Prince Philip

16. “Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.” ~Zig Ziglar

17. “I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.” ~Indian Proverb

18. “If you don’t like something change it. Don’t complain because you don’t have. Enjoy what you’ve got.” ~H. Stanley Judd

19. “If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” ~Anthony J. D’Angelo

20. “Complaining not only ruins everybody else’s day, it ruins the complainer’s day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.” ~Dennis Prager

What’s your favorite encouraging quote?