It’s almost weekend time again. However, before you fully embrace Friday, you might need a little emotional lift to finish your personal to-do list, take a long stroll, or take on your spring cleaning tasks. In any event, these Thursday quotations are ready to make you smile, think, and perhaps even encourage you to finally enroll in that yoga class you’ve been wanting to take.
We still have a lot of work to do and fuel left in our tank to burn when we cross the bridge to the weekend’s doorway on Friday. We’ve compiled a list of 25 quotes that will inspire you to feel amazing and achieve in order to assist you get your weekly dosage of encouragement. (And if you want more sayings and quotes to get you through every day of the week, be sure to peruse 75 Monday motivation quotes to start your week off strong and 50 motivational quotes to get you through the Wednesday slump.) While we cross the bridge to the weekend’s gateway on Friday, we still have plenty of tasks to complete and fuel left in our tanks.
If you need a quick boost, write down your favorite phrases from the collection below on sticky notes and share them with loved ones. We’ve included song lyrics, literature lines (yep, John Steinbeck’s Sweet Thursday made the cut), and even a few nursery rhymes. See our picks for the best Thursday quotations by reading on.
Thoughtful Thursday Quotes
- “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
- “‘What has my life meant so far, and what can it mean in the time left to me?’ And now we’re coming to the wicked, poisoned dart: ‘What have I contributed in the Great Ledger? What am I worth?’ And this isn’t vanity or ambition. Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try. It piles up ahead of them. Man owes something to man. If he ignores the debt it poisons him, and if he tries to make payments the debt only increases, and the quality of his gift is the measure of the man.” ― John Steinbeck, “Sweet Thursday”
- “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” ― John Steinbeck, “Sweet Thursday”
- “What are you looking for, little man? Is it yourself you’re trying to identify? Are you looking at little things to avoid big things?” ― John Steinbeck, “Sweet Thursday”
- “Thursday’s child has far to go.” — Anonymous, “Monday’s Child Is Fair of Face,” nursery rhyme
- “Thursday come[s], and the week is gone.” — George Herbert “Jacula Prudentum”
- “So like a summer Thursday, I cry for rain / To come and turn the ground to green again.” — Townes Van Zandt, “Like a Summer Thursday”
- “Thursday’s such a crazy, lazy day.” — Harry Nilsson, “(Thursday) Here’s Why I Did Not Go to Work Today”
- “People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same.” ― Percival Everett, “The Trees”
- “Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding.” ― Cheryl Strayed, “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar”
- “Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.” ― Germany Kent
- “You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you’re excited for the day? That’s one of my main goals in life.” ― Kirsten Dunst
- “Ask questions. Stay curious. It’s much more important to stay interested than to be interesting.” ― Jane Fonda
- “Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.” ― Walt Whitman
- “My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.” ― Anne Brontë
- “There is no better compass than compassion.” ― Amanda Gorman
- “Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.” ― Oprah Winfrey
- “I try to be available for life to happen to me.” ― Bill Murray
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
- “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” ― Duke Ellington, “Music is My Mistress”
- “Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” ― Lord Byron
- “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” ― Voltaire
- “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” ― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
- “Thursday is practically Friday, and Friday is Friday.” — Malcolm Azania
Final Thoughts
Thursdays have a certain appeal and potential, but they are often disregarded as just another workday in the grind of the workweek. Thursday might be viewed as a gateway, providing an opportunity to consider what has been accomplished thus far and what remains until the weekend. Having a positive outlook on Thursday can help you have a productive and satisfying end to the workweek. These inspirational quotations might be the ideal pick-me-up when you need a little inspiration, a gentle reminder of your objectives, or simply a little push to keep moving forward. Recall that every day, including Thursday, is a new chance to pursue happiness, success, and personal development.
