101 Tuesday motivation quotes to keep your week moving

Tuesday doesn't get much credit. Monday carries the fresh-start energy, Friday has the finish line in sight, and the day in between is usually where good intentions start to slip. A little Tuesday motivation goes a long way here — one good line from someone who has done hard things can steady your focus better than a third coffee.

The Tuesday quotes below are sorted by what you might actually need today: a push to begin, a reminder to keep your discipline, a lift for a heavy workday, or a laugh to take the edge off. Every one comes from a real person — writers, founders, athletes, scientists, and leaders. If the start of the week is the harder part for you, our Monday motivation quotes do the same job for that first morning. Otherwise, find the line that fits your Tuesday and keep it where you'll see it.

Tuesday motivation quotes to start the day

1. "Well done is better than well said." — Benjamin Franklin
2. "The beginning is the most important part of the work." — Plato
3. "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." — Anne Frank
4. "Nothing will work unless you do." — Maya Angelou
5. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." — Laozi
6. "You may delay, but time will not." — Benjamin Franklin
7. "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8. "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." — Will Rogers
9. "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." — Martin Luther King Jr.
10. "Either you run the day, or the day runs you." — Jim Rohn
11. "Do the thing and you shall have the power." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good morning, happy Tuesday quotes

1. "Carpe diem. Seize the day, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow." — Horace
2. "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "The sun is new each day." — Heraclitus
4. "Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5. "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
6. "Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." — Benjamin Franklin
7. "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." — Charles Dederich
8. "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." — Mother Teresa
9. "Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week." — Spanish proverb

Tuesday morning motivation and inspirational quotes

1. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." — Langston Hughes
3. "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
4. "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." — Richard Bach
5. "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right." — Henry Ford
6. "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life." — Golda Meir
7. "You must do the things you think you cannot do." — Eleanor Roosevelt
8. "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind." — William James
9. "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." — Zig Ziglar
10. "Dream big and dare to fail." — Norman Vaughan

Tuesday motivational quotes about discipline and consistency

1. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." — Will Durant
2. "Quality is not an act, it is a habit." — Will Durant
3. "Discipline equals freedom." — Jocko Willink
4. "Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it." — Horace Mann
5. "Nothing is stronger than habit." — Ovid
6. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." — Jim Rohn
7. "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." — Jim Rohn
8. "Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time." — John C. Maxwell
9. "It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently." — Tony Robbins

Tuesday motivation quotes for work and success

1. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." — Steve Jobs
2. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison
3. "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." — Theodore Roosevelt
4. "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." — Martin Luther King Jr.
6. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." — Vidal Sassoon
7. "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." — Tim Notke
8. "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." — Peter Drucker
9. "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand." — Vince Lombardi
10. "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." — Beverly Sills
11. "Opportunities don't happen. You create them." — Chris Grosser

Short Tuesday quotes

1. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." — Friedrich Nietzsche
2. "Fortune favors the bold." — Virgil
3. "Time is money." — Benjamin Franklin
4. "Knowledge is power." — Francis Bacon
5. "Slow and steady wins the race." — Aesop
6. "Less is more." — Robert Browning
7. "The unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates
8. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." — Muhammad Ali
9. "Veni, vidi, vici." (I came, I saw, I conquered.) — Julius Caesar
10. "Do. Or do not. There is no try." — Yoda
11. "Turn your wounds into wisdom." — Oprah Winfrey

Tuesday quotes about progress and perseverance

1. "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." — Calvin Coolidge
2. "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty." — Winston Churchill
3. "Energy and persistence conquer all things." — Benjamin Franklin
4. "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." — Samuel Johnson
5. "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." — George Bernard Shaw
6. "Fall seven times, stand up eight." — Japanese proverb
7. "Little by little, one travels far." — Spanish proverb
8. "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." — Harriet Beecher Stowe
9. "It always seems impossible until it's done." — Nelson Mandela
10. "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." — Walter Elliot
11. "A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence." — James N. Watkins

Positive Tuesday quotes for a better mindset

1. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." — Helen Keller
2. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." — Oscar Wilde
3. "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." — Colin Powell
4. "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." — Marcus Aurelius
5. "Once you choose hope, anything's possible." — Christopher Reeve
6. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." — James Branch Cabell
7. "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." — Willie Nelson
8. "Positive anything is better than negative nothing." — Elbert Hubbard
9. "Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things." — Epictetus

Tuesday quotes about setbacks and comebacks

1. "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." — Samuel Beckett
2. "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default." — J.K. Rowling
3. "Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." — J.K. Rowling
4. "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." — Viktor Frankl
5. "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." — Viktor Frankl
6. "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are." — Maya Angelou
7. "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." — Martin Luther King Jr.
8. "There is no education like adversity." — Benjamin Disraeli
9. "I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." — Thomas Edison
10. "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." — Henry Ford

Funny Tuesday quotes

1. "Tuesday is just Monday's ugly cousin." — Unknown
2. "On Tuesdays I run purely on caffeine and questionable optimism." — Unknown
3. "Tuesday should really come with a snooze button." — Unknown
4. "Coffee, because it's Tuesday and adulting is hard." — Unknown
5. "It's only Tuesday and I'm already counting down to Friday." — Unknown
6. "My favorite Tuesday exercise is a cross between a lunge and a crunch — I call it lunch." — Unknown

Tuesday quote of the day

Short on time? Pick one of these as your quote for today and let it set the tone.

1. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart." — Helen Keller
2. "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." — Napoleon Hill
3. "The best way out is always through." — Robert Frost
4. "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." — Albert Camus

However this Tuesday is going, there's usually a line here that meets you where you are — and the best one is the one you still remember by lunchtime. If today's lift sticks and you want more of it, our growth quotes and resilience quotes pick up where these leave off, and the best Stoic quotes are worth a read when you want something older and steadier.

Turn a good Tuesday into a good habit

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