Thursday is momentum day. The week has shape now: what matters, what can wait, and where a clean push will make Friday lighter. Good lines help you do that—one quote to steady your mind, one to sharpen your plan, and one to send to a friend who needs a lift. These Thursday quotes below gather classics and favorites across themes: morning starts, work and focus, gratitude, resilience, kindness, faith, and short lines for captions. Pick a few. Let them set the tone: simple plan, steady energy, good will.
Thursday Morning Motivation Quotes
Start light. Name one win, one task, one thank-you—then begin.
- “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Today is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.” — Maya Angelou
- “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston
- “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” — Meister Eckhart
- “Light tomorrow with today.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
- “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” — Attributed to Buddha
- “Make each day your masterpiece.” — John Wooden
- “While I breathe, I hope.” — Latin Proverb
Take one deep breath, write three bullets under “Done looks like…,” and begin.
Thursday Work & Focus Quotes
Turn Thursday into traction—clear aims, small steps, shipped work.
- “Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
- “The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost
- “What gets measured gets managed.” — Peter Drucker
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier
- “Do the hard things first.” — Unknown
- “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.” — Unknown
- “Focus is saying no.” — Steve Jobs
- “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” — Voltaire
Protect one block of time today. One window open, one task, one finish.
Gratitude & Blessings: Thursday Quotes
Gratitude turns an ordinary Thursday into a good one.
- “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — Willie Nelson
- “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” — Melody Beattie
- “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy.” — Marcel Proust
- “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” — Eckhart Tolle
- “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” — Robert Brault
- “He is a wise man who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices for what he has.” — Epictetus
- “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” — Doris Day
- “Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.” — Walt Whitman
- “Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places.” — Camille Pissarro
- “Thank you for today.” — Unknown
Send one thank-you by noon—name the deed and the impact.
Resilience & Fresh Start: Thursday Quotes
If earlier days were rough, Thursday can be your reset.
- “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” — Victor Hugo
- “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb
- “The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost
- “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” — Proverb
- “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” — Julie Andrews
- “What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.” — Mary Pickford
- “Keep going.” — Unknown
- “One day at a time.” — Unknown
- “Start again. Stronger this time.” — Unknown
Choose one repair and one small win. Put both on today’s calendar.
Friendship, Team & Kindness: Thursday Quotes
People make the week work—honor them.
- “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop
- “We rise by lifting others.” — Robert Ingersoll
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
- “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller
- “Let your light shine.” — Matthew 5:16
- “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “The simple act of caring is heroic.” — Edward Albert
- “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” — Henry Van Dyke
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” — Attributed, origin uncertain
- “Joy is not in things; it is in us.” — Richard Wagner
Credit someone by name in an update today. It lands more than you think.
Faith & Spiritual Thursday Blessings
Short anchors for peace, trust, and steady steps.
- “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” — Psalm 118:24
- “The Lord bless you and keep you.” — Numbers 6:24
- “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” — Psalm 147:3
- “Let all that you do be done in love.” — 1 Corinthians 16:14
- “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” — John 1:5
- “Indeed, with hardship comes ease.” — Qur’an 94:6
- “Be still, and know that I am God.” — Psalm 46:10
- “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.” — John 14:27
- “Whoever is grateful, is grateful for his own soul.” — Qur’an 31:12 (paraphrase)
- “Kindness is my religion.” — Dalai Lama
Hold one line close today; repeat it when your mind gets loud.
Thursday Quotes for Momentum into Friday
Aim for a lighter Friday by finishing the right things today.
- “Well begun is half done.” — Aristotle (attributed)
- “The future depends on what we do in the present.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Action is the antidote to despair.” — Joan Baez
- “What we do today can improve all our tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston
- “Little by little, one travels far.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
- “First we form habits, then they form us.” — Unknown
- “Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” — Attributed
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
- “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” — Peter Marshall
- “Finish strong.” — Unknown
Pick the one task that clears the most space for tomorrow—and finish it.
Short Thursday Quotes to Carry
Quick lines for texts, captions, and lock screens.
- “Happy Thursday.”
- “Almost there.”
- “Focus. Finish. Feel good.”
- “Grateful for this day.”
- “Small steps, steady wins.”
- “Light, then work.”
- “Do one good thing.”
- “Progress, not perfection.”
- “One block of focus.”
- “Make today count.”
- “Start with thanks.”
- “Grace for today.”
Pick one line and keep it close. Let it guide one choice today.