You got deadlines to meet before the end of the year, reports that need to be done and at the same time you may be a bit tired and mostly longing for some time off.

If that’s the case then today’s post can help you out. In it I want to share 100 of the most motivational, inspirational and funny December quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here to give you a kick of energy on an unmotivated day, a good laugh to release bit of stress and to make this a focused and successful end to your year.

Motivational December Quotes for Work

“December is a good time to reflect on the year past and dream of possibilities for the year ahead. A door closes and a new one opens.”
– Rip Miller

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
– Anne Bradstreet

“I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.”
– Noam Chomsky

“You want to be playing your best in December and hopefully it’ll carry over into January.”
– Philip Rivers

“As we look to the new year, hold on to what is good. Let go of what is bad. It really is that simple.”
– Mandy Hale

“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.”
– Vern McLellan

“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.”
– Fennel Hudson

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”
– Hal Borland

“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese Proverb

“Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year.”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.”
– Vivian Swift

“Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.”
– George R.R. Martin

“While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
– Tom Allen

“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”
– Henry Rollins

“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
– Paul Theroux

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
– Hal Borland

“Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
– Yoko Ono

“December is a month of enormous potential. It’s a time when we can all give and receive, a time when the spirit of humanity shines brightest.”
– Michael Josephson

“December doesn’t change your neurochemistry. If your brain isn’t made for an overload of alcohol, parties, passive aggressive relatives, general socialising with people you like but still get exhausted by, relentless routine rearrangement, it should be okay to say no to things. There is nothing festive about burnouts and breakdowns.”
– Matt Haig

“Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do – or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.”
– Stanley Crawford

“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Short December Quotes for Work

“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.”
– Sarah Kay

“Wisdom comes with winters.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“December: a month of lights, snow, and the year’s last sprints at work.”
– Meredith Kelly

“Winter teaches patience.”
– Anita Krizzan

“Every winter has its spring.”
– H. Tuttle

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
– Victor Hugo

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
– J.M. Barrie

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
– William Blake

“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
– Robert Frost

“I get excited for big games in December.”
– Jon Gruden

“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.”
– Anamika Mishra

“When snow falls, nature listens.”
– Antoinette van Kleeff

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
– Victor Hugo

“Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.”
– Debasish Mridha

“Winter is the king of showmen.”
– Ogden Nash

“Nothing burns like the cold.”
– George R.R. Martin

“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.”
– Marty Rubin

Funny December Quotes for Work

“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours.'”
– Robert Byrne

“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.”
– Don Herold

“My favorite December activity is going to work and freezing pretty much all the way there. Truly lovely.”
– Sarah Kelly

“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
– Kenneth Grahame

“The only thing more overwhelming than December’s darkness is my overstuffed to-do list due to me procrastinating all year long”
– Jim Harper

“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
– Bill Watterson

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
– Charles Lamb

“I know. I’m lazy. But I made myself a New Year’s resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have ’til December, right?”
– Catherine O’Hara

“The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.”
– Dave Barry

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
– Douglas Adams

“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.”
– Sinclair Lewis

“Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.”
– Geraldo Rivera

“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
– Carl Reiner

“It was so cold I almost got married.”
– Shelley Winters

“Winter is the season when we try to keep the house as hot as it was when we complained about the heat last summer.”
– Kin Hubbard

“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
– Bill Watterson

“There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.”
– Billy Connolly

“My keyboard must be broken. I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.”
– Unknown

“The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it.”
– Richard Brautigan

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
– Douglas Adams

“I’m not going outside until the temperature is above my age.”
– Unknown

“Close the year the way you want to open the next one: focused, done with meetings for life and with a at least a semi-cleaned out inbox.”
– Sandra Shea

Inspirational and Positive December Quotes for Tired Days at Work

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?”
– John Steinbeck

“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
– Aristotle

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”
– Andrew Wyeth

“Snow falling in the middle of a December night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.”
– Novala Takemoto

“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”
– Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“Of all the months of the year there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year.”
– Charles Dickens

“May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.”
– Lisa Kleypas

“Thank goodness for the first snow. It was a reminder – no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”
– Candace Bushnell

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
– Edith Sitwell

“Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.”
– Sarah Addison Allen

“So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that it escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form: every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky.”
– Flora Thompson

“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.”
– Terri Guillemets

“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
– Ali Smith

“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
– John Burroughs

“December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory.”
– John Geddes

“The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.”
– Terri Guillemets

Christmas Quotes for Work and Coworkers

“Coworkers are like Christmas lights. They hang together, half of them don’t work and the other half aren’t so bright.”
– Unknown

“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.”
– P.J. O’Rourke

“You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.”
– Maya Angelou

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
– Winston Churchill

“My Christmas wish list for work: fewer meetings, more of those crumbly seasonal cookies and – finally – a printer that works.”
– Sandra Shea

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.”
– Maya Angelou

“As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.”
– Donald E. Westlake

“A little Christmas kindness at work can warm up even the coldest and most stressful day in the second week of December.”
– Joy Stevens

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
– Larry Wilde

“Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.”
– Kin Hubbard

“This Christmas, give your coworkers the simple but powerful gift of a heartfelt, honest thank you they didn’t expect.”
– Joy Stevens

“I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas. It brings people together whilst time stands still.”
– Rachel Cohn

“I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.”
– Amy Adams

“When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.”
– Pippa Middleton

“Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus.”
– Rod McKuen

“December is a time for family, for love, and for forgiveness.”
– Caroline Myss

“I’m may be physically at my desk, but mentally I’m wrapping presents and making shopping lists for our Christmas feast.”
– Sandra Shea

Want more inspiration and motivation for the end of the year? Then check out these inspirational December quotes, the motivational New Year quotes here and also this one with uplifting Christmas quotes.

When Wednesday rolls around your motivation to keep getting things done may have lessened considerably.

I know that is sometimes the case for me at least.

So in this week’s post I’d like to share the top 20 tips and habits that help me to refuel my motivation to get past that midweek hump and keep working in a focused way until Friday afternoon is here and the weekend awaits.

I hope you’ll find something here to help to make your Wednesday even better.

1. Start small (or tiny).

If a project, a task or the next step at work or in school today seems tough or daunting and you wind up procrastinating then break it down into small steps. Steps that take just 5-10 minutes each.

Then get started on that first step to start moving forward once again.

I find that doing this not only gets me out of procrastination but also refuels my motivation and makes the next few steps forward easier and more fun again.

If breaking what you are about to do into small steps still lands you in procrastination then break your task down into tiny steps. Steps that only take 1-2 minutes to complete.

And then get started with the first tiny step.

The most important thing is to just get going and to start moving forward no matter how you actually do that. So be sure to use small or tiny steps frequently to get started and to get to done.

2. Play music that boosts your energy / changes your mood.

One of the easiest ways to boost my motivation right now as I write this is to take a 10 minute break and to play a bunch of songs that are upbeat or inspire me in some way.

Such a break often helps to change my perspective to a more open and inspired one and it becomes easier to move forwards after the break is over.

3. Compete in a friendly way (with others or yourself).

One way to make things more fun even if the task itself is boring is to make completing it into a friendly competition.

If you want you can add a small price for extra motivation like the winner getting a free ice cream or a can of soda from the other person.

Or you can compete with yourself. See if you can do a task faster than the last time – while still delivering a good result – to get some motivation flowing.

4. Remind yourself of what you are working towards.

When the motivation is low during your Wednesday morning and you just want to go back to bed then it’s easy to lose sight of why you’re doing something in the first place.

So take a couple of minutes and write down your top 3 reasons for why you are doing this work at school, at your job or with your business.

Put that physical note where you cannot avoid seeing it every day or turn it into a reminder on your smartphone that pops up once a day for easy access to that motivational boost.

5. Let the motivation flow from other people.

This is perhaps the easiest and simplest one to use if you feel unmotivated.

Simply let the motivation, enthusiasm and energy of other people into your mind, day and life.

I often do that nowadays by reading a chapter or so in a book on my Kindle. Or I watch a video by one of my favorite motivational Youtubers like Ali Abdaal.

6. Declutter and create a workspace that adds a bit more motivation.

When my work space is messy then I find that I have trouble focusing and so it’s easy to get stuck in procrastination in a lack of motivation.

If that is the case for you too then take 5 minutes right now to declutter your work space. Throw out the things that should not be there like old notes and coffee mugs. Put the things that are important back into their homes.

Then, when the work space is decluttered and in order again change your working environment a bit by adding some motivation:

• Put up a note with an inspiring quote or a photo of a loved one on your desk.
• Add a bit of greenery like a small plant if possible (this one’s maybe not for everyone but helps me to connect a little bit with nature and to relax when I work).
• Add a new and inspiring desktop wallpaper for your computer and one for your smartphone too.

7. Tap into gratitude for what you do have.

When you’re tired and in a motivational slump then in my experience it is easy to start seeing pretty much everything in your life through a negative lens. And so your motivation may stay stuck or even sink lower.

One of the quickest ways to get yourself out of that headspace is to tap into gratitude.

So I ask myself this:

What are 3 things I sometimes take for granted but can be grateful for in my life?

My answers when I asked myself this the last time were that I don’t have to go hungry, that I have a roof over my head and that I have an emergency fund if I need it.

8. Mix things up.

A rut can get you mentally stuck in negativity. So mix things up today.

Sit in a new spot when you do your work. Listen to other music or podcasts than you usually do. And go for the lunch option that feels the most new or different to you.

This simple variation can in my experience help to renew that motivation.

9. Take a 3 minute meditation break.

When my mind is overloaded and a bit tired (especially in the afternoons) then I often take a 3 minute meditation break to get rid of the mental clutter and inner tensions and to find a clear focus again.

Here’s how I do it:

I sit down on my comfy sofa and close my eyes. And then I just take slow belly breaths and focus 100% on the air going in and out for 3 minutes. And that’s it.

10. Find the optimism.

Pessimism can be a big drain on energy, creativity and motivation.

Optimism and a constructive perspective can on the other hand refuel your motivation and help you find a path forward.

So when I’m in what looks like a negative situation I like to ask myself questions like:

• What’s one thing that’s good about this situation?
• And what’s one hidden opportunity here?

11. Be kind to yourself when you have a setback.

It’s all too common to be hard on yourself if you fail or stumble.

Avoid that trap of self-beatings that will not help but just make you feel worse by asking yourself this when you have just had a setback:

How would my friend/partner/parent support me and help me in this situation?

Then do things and talk to yourself like he or she would.

12. Learn from your mistakes and stumbles.

We all make mistakes and have setbacks. It is just a normal part of a life well lived.

But when you’re in the middle of such a situation then it can feel tough. A good way to get back into action and to find a motivated perspective again is to see what you can learn from what happened.

I like to ask myself this:

What is one thing I can learn from this setback?

Then I write that lesson down or keep it in mind as I move forward.

13. Compare yourself to yourself (instead of to other people).

When you have the habit of always comparing yourself to other people and their achievements then that can easily become something that drags you down and zaps your motivation.

Because there is always someone that is smarter, richer or more successful than you no matter how much you have or achieve.

A healthier and smarter way to compare is to compare yourself to yourself. To see how far you have come and all the things you have overcome.

Do that to keep your motivation and self-esteem steady and let the often toxic habit of always comparing yourself to others go.

14. Reduce that overstuffed to-do list to just one item.

One look in the morning at a too long to-do list can make anyone lapse into procrastinating for a long while.

I know, I have done that many times.

So here’s a better way I use a to-do list nowadays.

I take out a piece of paper and write a list for my day with just one task to get done. Usually the one that’s most important to me right now or sometimes the one I’ve been procrastinating on for a while.

Then I get started by taking a small or tiny step.

And I have another list in my to-do list app with other tasks to do later on. But I don’t look at that list until the task I wrote down on paper is done.

15. Work out.

Working out doesn’t just affect your body.

I have found over the past 15 years that maybe the biggest benefit of just 20-30 minutes of lifting free weights is that it releases inner tensions and stress and makes me feel more focused once more.

16. Don’t skip your breaks.

I know, it’s tempting to skip taking a break and to just keep working to get more done.

But that’s a very short time solution as your energy, focus and motivation will dip and you are more likely to do work of lower quality, make more mistakes and start procrastinating.

So don’t skip the breaks.

They are just as important to keep doing consistently good work and keep your motivation up day after day and week after week.

17. Look back at your successes (and let them wash over you for 2 minutes).

Sit down and close your eyes.

Let your biggest successes – no matter what area of life they may be in – just wash over you for 2 minutes and let those positive memories and feelings boost your motivation.

18. Start slow.

If you see in your mind that you have to get started with something now and that you have to do it fast, fast, fast then that can sometimes lead to the task feeling too hard and so you procrastinate.

So instead, start slow.

It is better to get started and to do something at a slow speed than to not get started at all.

Plus, when you work at a slower pace – sometimes to just get started and sometimes until the task is fully done – you tend to make fewer mistakes and that may in the end save you both time and trouble.

19. Remember what Michael Jordan said about failure.

If you see failing as this big thing, as a big blow and oftentimes as the sky is falling then you could easily develop a fear of failure.

And so you try to do something one or two times and then quit. Or you don’t try at all.

A better way to look at this to make many of the dreams we have into reality is to look at failure as a stepping stone towards the success you want.

As valuable feedback that may sting for a little while but in the long run is more of a learning experience than something that will hurt a lot or is to be feared.

I often think of what Michael Jordan said about this when I have failed or I just want to amp up my own motivation to keep going:

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

20. Just get started (and let the motivation catch up with you).

An important reminder for me is that I don’t actually have to wait for motivation to get started.

I can just get to work with what I need to do anyway. And on some days this is what simply works best to keep that consistency in my work up.

But here’s the funny thing: after I have worked for a while, after I have taken a few steps forward then things feel easier, lighter and more fun. And so the motivation to keep going, to get my task or project to done catches up with me.

Want more Wednesday motivation? Check out these 120 Motivational Wednesday Quotes. And if you want more motivation for the start of the week then have a look at this post.

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
Albert Schweitzer

“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
Amelia Earhart

A very simple way to spread more happiness in your own little world is through kindness. It’s often an easy and quick thing you can do as you move through your daily life.

But we sometimes forget about it. Or don’t remember how it can help us all.

Three things that I like to keep in mind and that help me to try to be a kinder person are these:

• I get what I give. Yes, some people will be ungrateful, miserable and not reciprocating no matter what you may do. But most people will over time treat you as you treat them.
• By being kinder to others I am more likely to be kinder to myself. It may sound a bit odd but my experience is that when I am kinder towards others then my self-esteem goes up.
• It creates a happier place to live in. Being kinder simply makes my own little world a nicer and happier place to live in.

So how can you start spreading the kindness and happiness in your daily life?

Here are 15 simple ways to do it.

Pick one of them that resonates with you and start using it today.

1. Express your gratitude. 

Think about what you can be grateful for about someone in your life.

Maybe that he is a good listener, that he often is quick to help out or that he always adds great songs to a Spotify playlist. Or simply that he held up the door for you.

Then express that gratitude in a simple “thank you!” or in a sincere sentence or two.

2. Replace the judgments. 

No one likes to be judged. And the more you judge other people the more you tend to judge yourself.

So despite the temporary benefit of deriving pleasure from the judgments it is not a good or smart long-term habit.

When you feel the urge to judge ask yourself: what is one kind thing I can think or do in this situation instead?

3. Replace the unconstructive criticism. 

Try encouragement instead of excessive criticism. It helps people to both raise their self-confidence and to do a better job.

And it will make things more fun and more light-hearted in the long run.

4. Put yourself in the other person’s shoes. 

It is quite easy to resort to unkindness when you see things just from your perspective.

Two questions that help me to see and to better understand other viewpoints are:

• How would I think and feel it if I were in his or her shoes?
• What parts of this person can I see in myself?

5. Recall how people’s kindness made you feel.

Just sit down for a few minutes and try to recall one time or a few times when other people’s kindness really touched you and helped you out.

Then think about how you can do those very same things for someone in your life.

6. Express kindness for something you may often take for granted.

It is easy to remember and to feel motivated to express kindness when someone is having a rough time or have just finished an important project.

But also remember to express kindness and encouragement for how someone continues to put so much love into the dinners you eat. Or for being on time every day and doing their job well and keeping deadlines.

7. Hide a surprising and kind note.

Leave a small note with a loving or encouraging sentence in your partner’s or child’s lunchbox, hat, tea-container or book that he or she is reading right now.

That minute of your time will put a smile on her face and joy and motivation in her heart.

8. Just be there.

Listen – without thinking about something else – when someone needs to vent.

Just be there fully with your attention.

Or have a conversation and help someone find his or her way out of fear and to a more constructive and grounded perspective.

9. Remember the small acts of kindness too.

Let someone into your lane while driving. Let someone skip ahead of you in a line if he’s in a real hurry.

Hold up the door for someone or ask if they need help when you see them standing around with a map and a confused look.

10. Give someone an uplifting gift.

Someone in your life may have a a tough time right now. Then send him or her an inspirational book or movie. 

Or simply send an email with a link to something inspiring or funny that you have found like a blog, podcast or a comic.

11. Help someone out practically.

Give them a hand when moving or with making dinner or arrangements before a party.

If they need information, then help out by googling it or by asking knowledgeable people that you know.

12. Help the people in your life see how they make a difference in their lives.

When you talk to someone about his or her day or what has been going on lately then make sure to point out how he or she also has spread kindness and happiness.

People are often unaware of the positive things they do or they minimize them in their own minds.

So help them to see themselves in a more positive light and to improve their own self-esteem.

13. Remember the 3 reasons for kindness at the start of this article.

It will help you to be kinder even when you may not always feel much like it.

If you like, write those reasons down on a piece of paper and put that note where you can see it every day.

14. Pay it forward.

When someone does something kind for you – no matter how big or small – then try to pay that forward by being kind to someone else as soon as you can.

15. Be kinder towards yourself.

Then you will naturally treat other people with more kindness too. It is truly a win-win habit.

A simple way to start being kinder toward yourself is to each evening write down 3 things you appreciate about yourself and about what you have done that day in a journal.

A few days to spend quality time with the people who mean the most to us. To count our blessings, both big and small. To laugh a lot. And maybe eat a bit too much.

To help you to have a happy holiday I’d like to share 125 of the most positive, grateful and heartfelt Thanksgiving wishes, messages and quotes.

Use them in a card for coworkers or clients, in a group chat or text messages with family and friends or simply let a few of your favorites here be the inspiration for what you want to say during meals and celebrations this holiday.

Happy Thanksgiving Wishes and Messages for Friends

Sending you all my love and a big hug on Thanksgiving. Thank you for being you!

Life sure has had its ups and downs for both of us this year, but our late night calls and messages made a big difference. Thank you, my friend!

Today I’m counting my blessings, and I have kept coming back to you 3 times now. Have the happiest of Thanksgivings, my dear friend!

Friends like you are the top reason I have so much to be thankful for. Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving with lots of pie, love and plenty of laughter.

Thank you for every late-night talk, inside joke and all those adventures and hijinks we’ve had this year. Happy Thanksgiving and see you soon!

Happy Thanksgiving to the friend who always saves me a seat at the table. I’m so thankful for you this year and all the years we’ve known each other!

I can’t count how many times you’ve shown up for me when I needed it most. This Thanksgiving, I just want to say thank you once again. And know that I am just a phone call away if you need my help.

May your plate be overflowing and your old grey stretchy pants be ready for the evening. Happy Thanksgiving, buddy!

Out of all the things on my gratitude list this year, you’re right at the very top – even above mom’s classic stuffing!

No matter how many miles are between us right now, you’ve always had and always will have a seat at my table. Happy Thanksgiving!

Some are family by birth, and others are family by choice. I’m so grateful I got to choose you.

Here’s to you, my dear friend – the one person who knows me better than anyone and always seems to know when I need a laugh, a hug or just plenty more dessert.

I don’t want to get too schmaltzy, but I hope your Thanksgiving is as fun, generous and wonderful as the friendship you’ve given me over the years.

Happy Thanksgiving to the friend who never judges me for my bad decisions or my third helping.

Wishing a very happy holiday to someone who makes every regular day feel lighter and more adventurous.

This year, I’m thankful for good health, my very minor wealth and the best friends a girl could ever wish for. Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing you a Thanksgiving filled with cozy and recharging moments, delicious food and the people who matter most to you. Love you!

Gratitude is best when it’s shared, so here it goes: I’m very thankful I have gotten to know you this year. Have a great Thanksgiving!

You’re truly the cranberry sauce to my turkey. I honestly can’t imagine the holidays without you and will see you very soon!

May this Thanksgiving remind you just how appreciated you are. By me and by many others in our lives.

True friends are rare these days. I feel pretty darn lucky enough to have one in you. Wishing you a blessed Thanksgiving!

Another year of friendship, laughter until we started crying and way too many late chocolaty snacks in the books. Have a happy Thanksgiving, my friend!

Happy Thanksgiving Wishes and Messages for Coworkers & Colleagues

Happy Thanksgiving to a truly outstanding colleague! Here’s to a delicious and recharging holiday and an even more successful year ahead together.

Sending my warm Thanksgiving wishes to you and your loved ones. Have a great holiday and thank you for being such an essential part of our team’s success this year.

Happy Thanksgiving to my work bestie! Let’s check out now and then compare food comas when we’re back on Monday.

I’m thankful for many things this year, and a great team is high on that list. Thanks for everything you do, and happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to one of the few people who makes Monday mornings actually bearable! I’m so grateful to work alongside you.

Wishing you a long weekend full of good food, zero emails and plenty of well-deserved rest. Happy Thanksgiving!

Calling a coworker a blessing might sound like a stretch to some but you’ve honestly helped me more times than I can recall right now. So a big thank you once again and Happy Thanksgiving!

Thank you for your patience, for your smart solutions and hard work and the endless supply of positivity. Our team simply wouldn’t be the same without you.

May your turkey be juicy, your inbox stay empty and your out-of-office reply be switched on. Happy Thanksgiving!

From all of us at the office, happy Thanksgiving! We’re so grateful to have you here and for all the things you do.

Thank you so much for always having my back during these last few weeks and the tight deadlines. I hope you get to relax and have a lovely Thanksgiving.

I’m thankful for the endless coffee, occasional cake in the break room and colleagues like you who make work feel a lot less like work and more like fun. Happy Thanksgiving!

We all see how much energy, focus and work you’ve put into the project this year, and trust us, it hasn’t gone unnoticed. Wishing you a joyful and restful Thanksgiving, and hope you will enjoy this small gift.

Your hard work, kindness and goofy humor make this office a better – and more fun – place every single day. Sincerely, thank you, and have a great Thanksgiving!

I tried to get the whole week off approved so we could properly celebrate Thanksgiving, but the higher-ups weren’t having it this year either. Enjoy the long weekend and see you soon!

Wishing a cozy, relaxing and happy Thanksgiving to the person who keeps our team organized, positive and consistently well caffeinated.

This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for great colleagues who feel more like friends and who always have time to listen and help out. Thank you for being here!

It’s time to leave those spreadsheets behind and to relax and spend time the way you want to. Have a happy Thanksgiving!

Thank you for the support, all the laughs and the countless and reliable meeting notes this year. I hope your Thanksgiving is as wonderful as you are.

Work brought us together, but your kindness, stability and the way you make us laugh week after week is what I am truly grateful for. Have a great Thanksgiving!

Hoping your Thanksgiving is full of family, fun and absolutely no flippin emails.

We may not share a dinner table, but we do share a lot of good days at work – and I’m thankful for that.

Happy Thanksgiving Wishes and Messages for Family

Here’s to another year of family traditions, burned dinner rolls and the same old stories we’ll laugh about this year too.

You’ve always been my biggest supporter and cheerleader. My safe place when I’ve been in a storm. On Thanksgiving and every day, I’m so grateful for you and know I am here for you whenever you need help too.

Mom, you’ve made every holiday in my life feel magical. This year, let us do the cooking while you sit back and just relax.

Family is the greatest blessing in my life, and you’ve always helped us to take the right and smart path in life. That guidance means a lot. Thank you and happy Thanksgiving, Dad!

We’ve had many fights about dumb things. We have cheered each other on through everything life throws at us too. I’m so thankful to have you as my brother. Happy Thanksgiving!

Even when we’re miles apart, my heart is right there with all of you sitting around that old table talking loudly and laughing even louder. Happy Thanksgiving to my amazing family!

Happy Thanksgiving to this family, to a family that has taught me what it really means to be grateful for both small and big things. I love you all.

No matter where life takes me, our Thanksgiving table will always feel like home. I’m so blessed to have that in my life and to have you as my family.

Mom and Dad, thank you for every wonderful meal, every lesson you have taught me and every bit of love you’ve given me over all these years.

I know I don’t say it nearly enough, but I’m so grateful for you. Happy Thanksgiving to the best sister in the world! See you soon!

Being together is the best part of Thanksgiving, so let’s make the most of our time this holiday.

Grandma, your kitchen has always been the heart of our family. Thank you for every meal, story you’ve told us while cooking and for always lending a listening ear. Happy Thanksgiving!

We’ve sure had our share of heated discussions or worse over the years, but I wouldn’t trade anything for this crazy, but also filled to the brim with love family.

This year, I’m thankful for the people who knew me before I even knew myself – my family. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and thank you for all you’ve done since my first day here! Know I am always here if you ever need support.

To the person who cooks the turkey, sets the table and makes everything around holiday time work in a sort of magical way really – thank you, and happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing my wonderful family a Thanksgiving full of great food, lovely memories and second helpings until late in the day.

Wishing you a Thanksgiving so cozy, delicious and full of love that it feels like one big hug that lasts all the way til the end of the year.

Thank you for filling our home with lots of love, tons of laughter and just the right amount of wonderful chaos.

I can’t think of a better way to spend Thanksgiving than with the people I hold closest to my heart and that in the end knows me best.

Happy Thanksgiving to my other half and better half! Thank you for building a life, a family and a love with me that I’m so grateful for through life’s ups and downs.

To my kids: you are the reason my heart is so full and I’m so joyful this Thanksgiving. I love you more than all the pie, gravy and stuffing in the world.

Thank you for showing me that the best things in life aren’t things but the experiences we have with the people who mean the most to us. That is what lasting memories are made of.

As we gather for holiday celebrations this year, I simply want you all to know how thankful I am that we’re family and that you mean the world to me.

Happy Thanksgiving Wishes and Messages for Clients

Happy Thanksgiving! We’re truly grateful for your trust and partnership this year, and we look forward to many more years together.

I hope your table is crowded, your heart is full and your leftovers last all weekend. Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for another great year!

Thank you for choosing to work with us. Your loyalty means more than we can say, and we wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving and would like to give you this gift.

Wishing you and your team a wonderful, joyful and recharging Thanksgiving. It’s been a real pleasure working with you this year.

As we count our blessings this Thanksgiving, outstanding and always reliable clients like you are right at the top of our list. Thank you and have a happy holiday!

From all of us here, happy Thanksgiving! We hope your holiday is full of good food, great company and a well-deserved rest after this busy year.

This is the perfect time to say thank you again for being such a valued client and pleasure to work with. Happy Thanksgiving!

Our success is built on relationships like ours, and we’re truly so thankful for it. A happy Thanksgiving to you and your team from all of us!

It’s been an exciting year working together, and we couldn’t have done it without you. Have a fantastic Thanksgiving and let’s have an even better one next year!

We’re always grateful for your business, and even more grateful for the genuine and positive relationship we’ve built. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones.

Thank you for your trust and steady partnership throughout the year. We wish you a truly happy Thanksgiving.

Clients like you make our work both meaningful and successful. Thank you, and may your Thanksgiving be as rewarding as it’s been working with you this year.

Happy Thanksgiving from our team to yours! Here’s to a wonderful holiday and to an even more successful year ahead.

At Thanksgiving, we pause to appreciate the people who make what we do possible – and that includes you. Thank you for everything and let’s keep this success going!

Your support has helped us grow in ways we never imagined. For that we send heartfelt thanks and warm Thanksgiving wishes your way.

May your holiday be full of family, friends and memorable moments. Happy Thanksgiving, and thank you for your partnership!

Thank you for being such a pleasure to work with. We hope you’ll have a relaxing and recharging holiday.

Gratitude is at the heart of our mission, and this year we’re especially grateful for you and all you do.

Wishing you a lovely Thanksgiving and a holiday season filled with happiness!

Short Thanksgiving Messages and Quotes

“There is always something to be thankful for.”
– Charles Dickens

“Gratitude is the best attitude.”
– Unknown

“Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.”
– Nigel Hamilton

“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.”
– Hausa Proverb

“Give thanks for elastic waistbands.”
– Dave Barry

“Gratitude changes everything.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

“Express gratitude for the greatness of small things.”
– Richie Norton

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
– Karl Barth

“Life is better when you’re thankful.”
– Joyce Meyer

“Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.”
– Jefferson Bethke

“Pie makes everybody happy.”
– Laurie Halsie Anderson

“Kindness is always fashionable.”
– Amelia Barr

“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.”
– W. J. Cameron

“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness.”
– James E. Faust

“Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.”
– Native American Proverb

“‘Enough’ is a feast.”
– Buddhist saying

“Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
– Ann Voskamp

“Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.”
– Robert Caspar Lintner

“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”
– William Shakespeare

Happy Thanksgiving Messages and Quotes for Cards

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
– Charles Dickens

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
– Anthony Brandt

“Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to love, and a time to reflect on the things that matter most in life.”
– Danielle Duckery

“Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.”
– Donna Hedges

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.”
– Robert Brault

“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
– William Arthur Ward

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.”
– Melody Beattie

“Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
– Margaret Cousins

“Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.”
– E. P. Powell

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
– Meister Eckhart

“Home is people. Not a place.”
– Robin Hobb

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
– Lionel Hampton

“When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have.”
– Catherine Pulsifer

Want more positive energy for Thanksgiving? Then have a look at these inspirational Thanksgiving quotes, the funny Thanksgiving quotes and sayings here and also this one with plenty of short Thanksgiving quotes for a happy holiday.

And to help you with that I’d like to share 75 of the most funny, spooky and positive Halloween quotes for work.

Use one or a few of your favorites in a card, an email or group chat or maybe during your office celebrations.

I hope you’ll find something here to make Halloween a fun and happy time for you and your co-workers.

Funny Halloween Quotes for Work

“Halloween is the only time people can become what they want to be without getting fired.”
– Sylvester Stallone

“Was deciding if I should dress as Batman or Spider-Man for Halloween, when I realized I’m a grown man. So, Batman.”
– Stephen Colbert

“Darkness doesn’t scare me, my inbox does.”
– Unknown

“So apparently no one dresses up for Halloween here. I wish I had known that before I used greasepaint for my moustache.”
– Pam Beesly (from the TV-show The Office)

“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.”
– Unknown

“My Halloween costume is Godot. I’m not showing up at the party, just texting the host every 10 minutes that I’m on my way.”
– Wynne McLaughlin

“This Halloween I’m going as a human disaster; that way I don’t have to get dressed up.”
– Jim Gaffigan

“I’m not undead, I’m just overworked and underpaid.”
– Unknown

“Little tip: when you show up to a Halloween party not dressed up, it’s the same as showing up to a normal party in a costume.”
– Josh Groban

“Halloween is right around the corner. You can tell because all the stores are decked out for Christmas.”
– Stephen Colbert

“For Halloween, I’m going as that feeling you get at a store when you try to refold a sweater properly and put it back on the shelf.”
– Rob Delaney

“My Halloween costume was so bad that people opened their doors and took candy from me.”
– Glen Nesbit

“It’s that special time of year where we voluntarily imbibe pumpkin-spiced lattes: the coffee that tastes like a candle.”
– John Oliver

“As a kid, Halloween was amazing. You dress like a superhero, you bang on your neighbor’s door, and they give you candy. I do that today, and my neighbor wants me arrested.”
– Jim Gaffigan

“I make it a rule never to get involved with possessed people.”
– Dr. Peter Venkman (from the movie Ghostbusters)

“I’m just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It’s just, I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade.”
– Morticia Addams (from the movie Addams Family Values)

“If the ghost of a murdered girl really existed, I think she’d have something better to do than haunt people who don’t forward chain emails.”
– Rhys James

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it’ll last.”
– Willy Wonka (from the book Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)

“Just put on my Halloween costume! This year I’m going as ‘Guy Who Thinks Halloween Is on October 18th.'”
– Stephen Colbert

“Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.”
– Stephen Graham Jones

“A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.”
– Lucy Van Pelt (from the movie It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown)

“My costume this year? A responsible adult.”
– Unknown

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself… and spiders.”
– Unknown

Spooky Halloween Quotes and Sayings for Work

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
– H.P. Lovecraft

“Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.”
– Tim Burton

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
– William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
– Shirley Jackson (from the TV-show The Haunting of Hill House)

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
– Edgar Allan Poe

“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle

“Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.”
– Ichabod Crane (from the movie Sleepy Hollow)

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
– Stephen King

“Listen to them – the children of the night. What music they make!”
– Bram Stoker

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
– George Carlin

“It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.”
– Sheriff Leigh Brackett (from the movie Halloween)

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.”
– J.K. Rowling

“I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.”
– Elizabeth (from the movie Friday the 13th Part VI)

“Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”
– William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (from the book The Tell-Tale Heart)

“I must go in. The fog is rising.”
– Emily Dickinson

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
– William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!”
– Scottish Saying

Witty and Somewhat Motivational Halloween Quotes for the Workplace

“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”
– Douglas Coupland

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
– Bill Watterson

“Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.”
– Elvis Duran

“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly lit front porch.”
– Robert Brault

“Magic is really very simple. All you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.”
– Aggie Cromwell (from the movie Halloweentown)

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.”
– Judy Gold

“It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.”
– Vincent Price

“On Halloween, you get to become anything that you want to be.”
– Ava Dellaira

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
– Marie Curie

“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.”
– Paula Guran

“Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
– Shirley Jackson (from the TV-show The Haunting of Hill House)

“There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.”
– Colette

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
– Mark Twain

“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
– Nelson Mandela

“And that’s when I realized, when you’re a kid you don’t need a costume, you ARE Superman.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

Short Halloween Quotes for Work, Co-Workers and Cards

“I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.”
– Wednesday Addams (from the movie The Addams Family)

“Witch parking. All others will be toad.”
– Unknown

“I go for a look which I call ‘dead but delicious.'”
– Vladislav (from the movie What We Do in the Shadows)

“It’s a full moon tonight. That’s why all the weirdos are out.”
– Dani (from the movie Hocus Pocus)

“Hocus pocus, time to focus.”
– Unknown

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“It’s showtime!”
– Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

“You rang?”
– Lurch (from the movie The Addams Family)

“A mask tells us more than a face.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
– Mason Cooley

“Never trust the living.”
– Beetlejuice

“This witch can be bribed with chocolate.”
– Unknown

“Keep calm and carry a wand.”
– A.W. Jantha

“Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
– Ronnie, The Fly

“Happy Halloween to all, and to all a good fright.”
– Hubie Dubois (from the movie Hubie Halloween)

“Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?”
– Linus (from the movie It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown)

“Being normal is vastly overrated.”
– Aggie Cromwell (from the movie Halloweentown)

“Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.”
– Steve Almond

Want more inspiration for Halloween? Then have a look at these funny Halloween quotes, the short Halloween quotes and sayings here and also this one with the best Halloween quotes.

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear.

It’s so easy to get stuck in it. To let it hold you back.

I have been there many times in my life.

The fear has, for example, held me back from:

• Trying new things. It has held me back from trying something new for lunch or a new hobby because I feared I would have a bad experience or fail. And so I stuck to my usual routine and choices.
• Asking someone out for a date. Because I didn’t want to risk being rejected or looking like a fool in eyes of other people.
• Living my life like I deep down wanted to. The fear has held me in its grip and calmly explained to me that it would be best and most comfortable for me to stay where I am and to do nothing new. And many times I have sadly believed the fear and gotten myself stuck in a place where I honestly deep down didn’t want to be.

The fears we have are based in how we think about things. Destructive thought habits can create a lot of fear that is really unnecessary and damaging.

But there are also ways to handle these habits when they pop up and to – over time – replace them with healthier habits.

So today I’d like to share 6 destructive and fear-inducing thought habits and what to do instead of letting them roam free in your head.

1. You keep the fear foggy and undefined.

As long as your fear of doing something is foggy and undefined and just floating around in your head it will hold you back and often grow stronger with time.

What to do instead:

Ask yourself this question: what is the worst that could realistically happen?

And don’t just take a second or two to answer it.

Sit down with a pen and piece of paper. Take time to really think about it and to write out the realistic worst-case scenario.

This will:

• Bring a lot of clarity to what you truly fear.
• Defuse quite a bit of fuzzy fears or disaster scenarios that may have been bouncing around in your mind.
• Help you to realize that you can often bounce back pretty quickly even if the worst-case scenario somehow becomes reality.

2. You keep the fear to yourself.

When you keep the fear to yourself then in my experience it can easily take charge of your imagination and build a horrific and paralyzing nightmare in your mind.

Just being alone with the fear makes it is easy to lose touch with reality.

What to do instead:

Writing it out as mentioned above can certainly help. Another step you can take is to share your fear with someone else.

By sharing and getting some level-headed input from a friend or family member that nightmare can often be quickly deflated and seen for what it really is.

And just talking about it to someone who truly listens will release a lot of your inner tensions.

3. You focus on aspects that will keep you stuck.

If you just focus on the negative things that could happen if you face your fear then it will be very hard to start moving forward.

What to do instead:

A change in perspective is needed.

You can get it by talking to your friend or family member and by exchanging ideas and experiences about what opportunities lie ahead if you move forward.

You do it by focusing on the positive and on why you want to move towards what you fear.

A few questions that have helped me to find the more constructive and positive perspective when I have faced a fear are:

• What are the potential upsides that I want and can have by taking these actions?
• What are the potential upsides in one year if I start moving on this path? And in five years?
• And how will my life be in five years if I continue on the fearful path that I am on today?

Talk these questions over with someone. Or take out a piece of paper and write down the answers. Or do both.

4. You misinterpret the often little information you have.

It is easy to take very few experiences – maybe just one – and start seeing them as evidence of something permanent and frightening in your life.

What to do instead:

Question your fears and what they are based upon.

Again, sit down with that pen and a piece of paper. Think back to what evidence you have in your memories for a fear and a belief of yours.

Try to see the situation(s) that created your fear with fresh eyes today. Instead of the way you may usually see them.

Doing this helped me to for example reduce my fear of social rejection.

I looked back at a few situations from my past that formed and fueled that fear.

And I realized that:

• Honestly, I may have just misinterpreted being rejected in some of those situations.
• I often wasn’t rejected because it was something wrong with what I did but simply because we weren’t realistically a good match for each other. Or because the other person had a bad day or because he or she simply wanted to push me down to feel better about himself or herself in that moment.

This was an eye-opening experience and also helped me to understand that everything is not about me and what I do. And that our memories can often be pretty inaccurate and unhelpful if not reexamined later on.

And that our minds love to create patterns and conclusions based on very little evidence or few experiences.

5. You try to push the fear away.

When you try to deny a fear in your life, when you try to push it away or not think about it then it can often grow stronger.

What to do instead:

I have found in recent years that pushing the fear away can certainly work and help you to not be paralyzed from taking action. But I have also discovered that it can sometimes be more helpful to accept the fear.

To accept that it is there instead of for example trying to tell yourself to focus on the positive like a laser-beam.

That may sound a bit vague so here’s how I do it.

• Breathe. Take a few breaths and focus only on the air going in and out to calm and center yourself a bit.
• Tell yourself something like: “Yes, the fear is here. It simply is at this point in time.”
• Take that feeling of fear in and just let it be there in your body and mind. It will be uncomfortable. But just for short while.

Because if you do let it in then after a while – often just after a few minutes of discomfort in my experience – the fear starts to lose steam. It becomes a lot smaller or just seems to float away.

And it becomes a lot easier to think clear and constructive thoughts again.

6. You make it harder than it needs to be to take action.

If you think that you have to take action in a big, heroic and risky leap to overcome your fear then that may often lead to more fear and to not taking any action at all.

What to do instead:

A more helpful way to go about things is to not go all in at once. But to instead just dip your toes in. To take a small step forward but to do it today or as soon as you can.

And to take that first step slowly if you like.

The most important thing is that you start moving. That you start building momentum forward so that you can take more small and perhaps slow steps forward.

Doing things this way will not only build momentum but also self-confidence and expand your comfort zone. And all of this will make it a lot easier to take a bit bigger steps later on too if you’d like to.

If you feel tired, overwhelmed or just plain stressed out and uninspired today then this post will hopefully help you out.

In it I want to share wisdom and empowering reminders from some of the strongest and most successful women of all time.

This is 125 of the most positive, motivational and inspirational quotes for women.

I hope you’ll find something uplifting here, something to guide you to your own inner strength and to keep you moving through tough times and towards your own goals and dreams.

Inspirational Quotes for Women for a Boost of Positivity

“I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.”
– Hoda Kotb

“Why not take a chance and bet on happiness?”
– Jenny Han

“It’s not your job to be likable. It’s your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.”
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
– Helen Keller

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”
– Lucille Ball

“The challenge is not to be perfect; it’s to be whole.”
– Jane Fonda

“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
– Maya Angelou

“Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.”
– Mandy Moore

“I inhale hope with every breath I take.”
– Sharon Kay Penman

“Every day is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.”
– Demi Lovato

“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“My experiences remind me that it’s those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.”
– Kelly Clarkson

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
– Ingrid Bergman

“Once you know who you are, you don’t have to worry anymore.”
– Nikki Giovanni

“What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don’t have, is just love what we do have.”
– Cameron Diaz

“You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.”
– Melissa Etheridge

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank

“I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.”
– Emma Stone

“Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.”
– Jameela Jamil

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
– Audrey Hepburn

Short Inspirational Quotes for Women

“She believed she could, so she did.”
– R.S. Grey

“Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.”
– Stephanie Bennett-Henry

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
– Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

“When the world tells you to shrink, expand.”
– Yoko Ono

“Girls should never be afraid to be smart.”
– Emma Watson

“Choose your dream. Work to the extreme.”
– Tyra Banks

“Everything is figureoutable.”
– Marie Forleo

“I can and I will. Watch me.”
– Carrie Green

“Done is better than perfect.”
– Sheryl Sandberg

“Be the woman you needed as a girl.”
– Unknown

“Strong back. Soft front. Wild heart.”
– Brené Brown

“Don’t stop until you’re proud.”
– Unknown

“Limit your ‘always’ and your ‘nevers.'”
– Amy Poehler

“Where there is a woman, there is magic.”
– Ntozake Shange

“Real queens fix each other’s crowns.”
– Unknown

“It’s up to you now. This is your life so make it yours.”
– Sarah Kelly

“Am I good enough? Yes, I am.”
– Michelle Obama

“Let your compassion fuel your passion.”
– Achea Redd

“No today doesn’t mean no tomorrow.”
– Yvonne Orji

“Practice creates confidence. Confidence empowers you.”
– Simone Biles

“She remembered who she was, and the game changed.”
– Lalah Delia

“There is more to life than being a passenger.”
– Amelia Earhart

Motivational Quotes for Women to Help You Reach Your Dream

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
– Estée Lauder

“If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.”
– Michele Ruiz

“Chance is the first step you take; luck is what comes afterward.”
– Amy Tan

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land.”
– Helen Keller

“Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Especially not yourself.”
– Mindy Kaling

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand

“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.”
– Alice Walker

“Ditch the dream and be a doer.”
– Shonda Rhimes

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
– Gloria Steinem

“Stay committed and consistent and you will achieve your goals. Never give up.”
– Kelly Rowland

“You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.”
– Abby Wambach

“Aim at a high mark and you’ll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting, for only practice will make you perfect.”
– Annie Oakley

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
– Amelia Earhart

“Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
– Golda Meir

“We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
– Marie Curie

“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.”
– Mae Jemison

“Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.”
– Diana Ross

“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.”
– Caroline Myss

“What’s the world for if you can’t make it up the way you want it?”
– Toni Morrison

“When someone tells you that you can’t, figure out how you can.”
– Clarice Lam

Inspirational Quotes for Women to Get You Through the Hard Times

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

“It’s not about how many times you get rejected or fall down or are beaten up; it’s about how many times you stand up and are brave and you keep on going.”
– Lady Gaga

“There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.”
– Hannah Gadsby

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
– Maya Angelou

“Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak. Sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go.”
– Taylor Swift

“Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.”
– Robin Roberts

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The warrior knows that her heartbreak is her map.”
– Glennon Doyle

“It’s the rough side of the mountain that’s the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn’t have anything for you to hang on to.”
– Aretha Franklin

“When you feel broken by life’s painful moments, realize you are as resilient as sea glass, a bottle broken by the movement of the waves, but still beautiful.”
– Virginia Buckingham

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
– Helen Keller

“My best successes came on the heels of failure.”
– Barbara Corcoran

“For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”
– Mary Kay Ash

“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”
– Maya Angelou

“All the people who knock me down only inspire me to do better.”
– Selena Gomez

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”
– Arianna Huffington

“Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.”
– Marie Curie

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
– Rosa Parks

Empowering Quotes About Strong Women

“Don’t mistake politeness for lack of strength.”
– Sonia Sotomayor

“A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.”
– Gina Carey

“What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not.”
– Rupi Kaur

“Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.”
– Serena Williams

“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”
– Maya Angelou

“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you.”
– Viola Davis

“Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”
– G.D. Anderson

“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.”
– Melinda Gates

“There’s something so special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.”
– Rihanna

“The best protection any woman can have is courage.”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“At some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
– Anaïs Nin

“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft

“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.”
– Marge Piercy

“I am a woman and a warrior. If you think I can’t be both, you’ve been lied to.”
– Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

“Here’s to strong women: May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.”
– Unknown

“After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.'”
– Anna Quindlen

“Behind every great woman… is another great woman.”
– Kate Hodges

“When women support each other, incredible things happen.”
– Unknown

“Women have always been the strong ones of the world.”
– Coco Chanel

Leadership Quotes by Women for Success on Your Own Terms

“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
– Shirley Chisholm

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.”
– Catherine Cook

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader.”
– Dolly Parton

“If you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.”
– Margaret Thatcher

“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”
– Madeleine Albright

“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”
– Sheryl Sandberg

“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
– Rosalynn Carter

“If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself, and the organization gets pulled up with you.”
– Indra Nooyi

“Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.”
– Margaret Wheatley

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
– Malala Yousafzai

“Once you’ve taken your seat at the table, it’s your job to pull out a chair for the others, too. Look for the others. Acknowledge them. Build a platform for them.”
– Bianca Bass

“True leadership is when you create opportunity for others, including yourself.”
– Shama Patel

“Some leaders are born women.”
– Geraldine Ferraro

“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”
– Sheryl Sandberg

“We need to get women to the point where they aren’t apologizing. It is time to take ownership in our success.”
– Tory Burch

“Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.”
– Anita Roddick

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
– Alice Walker

“What I want young women and girls to know is: You are powerful, and your voice matters.”
– Kamala Harris

“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.”
– Sara Blakely

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