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101 Last Day Of The Month Motivational Quotes To Start Fresh

Sometimes the last day of the month feels like you’ve reached a finish line in a long and exhausting race. It’s a time for celebrating the victories from the last month, and resting after the battles that got the better of us.

But the last day of the month is also the day before the start of a new month and a new beginning. I’ve always seen this as a good time for reflection, goal setting, and planning to achieve great things and conquer new adventures in the month to come.

You are gifted with an opportunity at the end of every month. You get the chance to set new intentions and explore new opportunities.

To help you take advantage of the fresh start ahead, I have put together this collection of last day of the month motivational quotes. My goal is to help you use the obstacles of your past to help you grow and find greater success in the month ahead!

These 101 last day of the month motivational quotes are from real human beings throughout history who have conquered challenges with hard work, a positive attitude, and determination to go the extra mile. Regardless of the battles that you fought throughout the last month, let’s turn our attention to the amazing things ahead!

How to Use Last Day of the Month Motivational Quotes

Motivational quotes have the power to help us make sense of our struggles and failures. While the beginning of the month is a brand new start, it is important to not simply forget about the obstacles the previous month brought.

The obstacles of your past month are learning opportunities to help you find growth. They provide you with feedback on how you can improve for next month!

Choose your favorite last day of the month motivational quotes from this list and use them to help you focus on how you can find growth and gratitude in your experiences from the previous month. Spend the last day of the month writing in your journal to unpack and process the events of the previous month. Spend some time focusing on reflection, setting goals, and planning to make this coming month your best one this year!

Last Day of the Month Motivational Quotes

  1. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey
  2. “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” – Maya Angelou
  3. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
  4. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
  5. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot  
  6. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
  7. “Your attitude determines your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar
  8. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
  9. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So sail away from the safe harbor. Explore, Dream, Discover.” – Mark Twain
  10. “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  11. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
  12. “If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.” – Dr. Seuss
  13. “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” – Vince Lombardi
  14. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan
  15. “Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.” – Seth Godin
  16. “Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.” – Muhammad Ali
  17. “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that 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
  18. “The time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long” – William Shakespeare
  19. “Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.” – Robert Frost
  20. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale
  21. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again” – Thomas Paine
  22. “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson
  23. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
  24. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
  25. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
  26. “The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.” – Warren Buffett
  27. “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington
  28. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts

Inspirational Quotes for Each Month

  1. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
  2. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn
  3. “Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.” – Nelson Mandela
  4. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
  5. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
  6. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – J.P. Morgan
  7. “If you are committed to doing what it takes, anything is possible. It’s up to you.” – Michelle Obama
  8. “If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run then walk. If you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
  9. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
  10. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
  11. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.” – Abraham Lincoln
  12. “It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.” – Warren Buffet
  13. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
  14. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

End Of The Month Motivational Quotes

  1. “Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.” – Catherine Pulsifer
  2. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
  3. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
  4. “The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.” – C. JoyBell C.
  5. “I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.” – Oprah Winfrey
  6. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou
  7. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
  8. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity!” – Albert Einstein
  9. “When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  10. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
  11. “Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey
  12. “Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.” – Thomas Jefferson

Inspirational Quotes for the New Month

  1. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
  2. “Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” – Mark Twain
  3. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  4. “Be yourself; everyone else is taken.” – Oscar Wilde
  5. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
  6. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
  7. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela
  8. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
  9. “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” – Lao Tzu
  10. “Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the fullest.” – Oprah Winfrey
  11. “With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.” – Oprah Winfrey
  12. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
  13. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated

Quotes for an Optimistic New Month

  1. “Choose people who lift you up.” – Michelle Obama
  2. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  3. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin
  4. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
  5. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford
  6. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
  7. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  8. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
  9. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
  10. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
  11. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
  12. “Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” – Steve Jobs
  13. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
  14. “You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey

Last Day of the Month Quotes

  1. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
  2. “The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
  3. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
  4. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain 
  5. “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar
  6. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to success is to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
  7. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  8. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
  9. “Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.” – Oprah Winfrey
  10. “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” – Albert Einstein
  11. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  12. “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

New Month Quotes

  1. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
  2. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
  3. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  4. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  5. “Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
  6. “Go ahead, do something impossible.” – Seth Godin
  7. “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” – Dr. Seuss
  8. “Cheers to a new month and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
cheers to a new month and another chance to get it right

How to Use Last Day of the Month Quotes In Your Life

As this month comes to a close, it is the perfect time to prepare for a month of rebirth! The best way to prepare for the coming month is to use last day of the month motivational quotes to prime your mind with positive thinking.

Writing your favorite new month quotes from this list in your journal is the perfect way to set your intentions for the month ahead. Remember that the last day of the month is an opportunity to turn your dreams into a plan. Think about how the previous month can help you with the beginning of a new month. Draw up a vision map that you can use to walk yourself through the exact steps you will take to crush your goals this month!

No matter how bad your month may have been, there is a beautiful new month waiting for you full of growth and learning opportunities. Carry last month’s lessons with you into the first day of this month!

What amazing things will your new beginning bring for you?

If you are looking for more inspiration to make the most of the new month, check out our collection of new month motivational quotes!

Don’t forget to share this post with your friends and family on social media! If you know someone who could use some help starting a new month on the right foot, this could be just the post that they need!


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