Regardless of where you work, Tuesdays can be incredibly tough. The week is still in its initial stages, Friday seems impossibly far, and the work is usually already piled up. All of that makes the day appear like a never-ending chore.
However, with the right words, even Tuesdays can turn into days filled with productivity, laughter, and positive energy. To that end, here are some Tuesday motivational quotes that can get you started.
Tuesday Motivational Quotes for Work
#1. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ― Thomas A. Edison
#2. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ― Paulo Coelho
#3. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and, most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” ― Pele
#4. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ― Nelson Mandela
#5. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” — Tommy Lasorda
#6. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer
#7. “Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” — Lou Holtz
#8. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” — Farrah Gray
#9. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb
#10. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” — Earl Nightingale
#11. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
#12. “You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you.” — Tony Morgan
#14. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill
#15. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” — Dr. Robert Schuller
Inspiring Quotes for Every Tuesday
#16. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” — Steve Jobs
#17. “We always hear how breakfast is the most important meal of the day but instead, I would say that our thoughts in the morning can be our most important thoughts for the day.” — Jane DuBois
#18. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
#19. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison
#20. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers
#21. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” — Jim Rohn
#22. “One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully, we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.” — Viggo Mortensen
#23. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” — Dale Carnegie
#24. “The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi
#25. “Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” — Gary Ryan Blair
#26. “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday Quotes That Will Keep You Going
#27. “Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.” — Denis Waitley
#28. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius
#29. “Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly, you are doing the impossible.” — Saint Francis
#30. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton
#31. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
#32. “It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.” — Richard Evans
#33. “Fall 7 times, stand up 8.” — Japanese Proverb
#34. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
#35. ”This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” — Alan Wilson Watts
#36. “We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” — Barbara De Angelis
Tuesday Quotes to Remind You to Work Hard
#37. “Success only comes to those who dare to attempt.” — Mallika Tripathi
#38. “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.” — Henry Ford
#39. “The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way.” — Robert Kiyosaki
#40. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” — Gordon B. Hinckley
#41. “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
#42. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson
#43. “Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work.” — David Ogilvy
#44. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” — Olin Miller
#45. “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” — G.K. Neilson
#46. “Without hard work and discipline, it is difficult to be a top professional.” — Jahangir Khan
#47. “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.” — Thomas Jefferson
#48. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” — Beverly Sills
#49. “Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour, which can be done just as well as now.” — Margaret Fuller
Tuesday Quotes to Inspire Success
#50. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” — Benjamin Franklin
#51. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” — Bill Bradley
#52. “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” — Shiv Khera
#53. “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
#54. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” — Dale Carnegie
#55. “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” — Virat Kohli
#56. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch
#57. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” — Og Mandino
#58. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand
#59. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell
#60. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” — Dale Carnegie
Tuesday Quotes for When You Are Having a Rough Day
#61. “You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.” — Mahatma Gandhi
#62. “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way, we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” — Hermann Hesse
#63. “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” — M. Scott Peck
#64. “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” — Denis Waitley
#65. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger
#66. “I’ve learned that, no matter what happens or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” — Maya Angelou
#67. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
#68. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” ― Jim Rohn
#69. “Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ― Joshua J. Marine
#70. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope; you will fill yourself with hope.” ― Barack Obama