The sun is up. It’s a brand new day. Now, what’s your mood or your biggest challenge today? Do you feel unmotivated? Uncertain about love? Down on yourself? Stressed and grumpy and in need of a laugh? Then today’s post can help you to make this a positive and inspired day. Because in it I’d like to share 160 of the most powerful, motivating and uplifting quotes of the day. I’ve divided them into sections based on what you need help with today. Maybe it’s motivation for work. Or a bit of self-love. Or simply a couple of good laughs. Pick one quote – or maybe two – from the section that resonates the most with you today. Write it down on a post-it note and put it somewhere where you’ll see it for the rest of the day to keep the inspiration up and your mind on the right track. And don’t forget to bookmark this page for the coming days and weeks. Motivational Quote of the Day for the Workplace “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer “Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.” – Ava DuVernay “The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” – Kobe Bryant “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs “You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.” – Elizabeth Gilbert “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Janet Dailey “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” – Booker T. Washington “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler “To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.” – Bill Gates “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” – Henry Ford “Don’t be busy. Be productive.” – Tim Ferriss “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin “Spend so much time on the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.” – Christian Larson “A year from now, you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb Positive and Inspirational Quote of the Day “Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.” – Jim Thompson “Lead from the heart, not the head.” – Princess Diana “Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.” – Mandy Moore “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Thomas S. Monson “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” – E. E. Cummings “Make your life matter and have fun doing it.” – Aaron Hurst “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl “All your dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth “The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” – John Muir “Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink.” – Lilly Pulitzer “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou “I dwell in possibility.” – Emily Dickinson “It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” – John Keats “The next choice is the most important choice.” – George Wells “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell “Do good and good will come to you.” – Adam Lowy “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem “Optimism is a huge asset. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better.” – Melinda French Gates “An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot “Happiness is not by chance but by choice.” – Jim Rohn “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” – Dalai Lama “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw “Light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop Quotes of the Day with Encouragement for Bad and Tired Days “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” – Mandy Hale “At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough.” – Lori Deschene “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher “What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.” – Meryl Streep “I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.” – Ava DuVernay “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” – Jodi Picoult “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou “Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy “When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.” – Jaeda Dewalt “Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” – Mary Holloway “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte “If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person.” – Bill Clinton “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” – Thomas A. Edison “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary “Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.” – Demi Lovato “Like tiny seeds with potent power to push through tough ground and become mighty trees, we hold innate reserves of unimaginable strength. We are resilient.” – Catherine DeVrye “Weakness are just strengths in the wrong environment.” – Marianne Cantwell “Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes.” – Mehmet Murat ?ldan “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” – Ray Goforth Funny Quote of the Day for Laughs and Good Vibes “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” – Will Ferrell “I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” – Steven Wright “A smile is a facelift that’s in everyone’s price range!” – Tom Wilson “You know you’ve reached middle age when you’re cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.” – Joan Rivers

“Every step forward is progress, even if it’s just to the coffee machine.” – Unknown “I never feel more alone than when I’m trying to put sunscreen on my back.” – Jimmy Kimmel “Drink water and stay hydrated, not because it’s healthy, but because no one likes a cranky raisin.” – Unknown “When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.” – Will Rogers “Chase your dreams like you’re chasing the last piece of cake at a party.” – Unknown “A good partner holds your hand. A great partner orders fries for the table.” – Unknown “I saw a study that said speaking in front of a crowd is considered the number one fear of the average person. Number two was death. This means to the average person, if you have to be at a funeral, you would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.” – Jerry Seinfeld “Happiness isn’t about having it all together; it’s about laughing at the fact that you don’t.” – Unknown “Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” – Charlotte Whitton “When life gets tough, pretend you’re in a rom-com montage and keep going.” – Unknown “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln “I walk around like everything’s fine, but deep down, inside my shoe, my sock is sliding off.” – Unknown “Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.” – Socrates Quotes of the Day on Love and Relationships “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius “The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.” – Bennett Cerf “Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.” – Leo Buscaglia “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” – Charles Dickens “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Bill Watterson “If you see someone without a smile, give ’em yours.” – Dolly Parton “The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein “Deep in your wounds are seeds, waiting to grow beautiful flowers.” – Niti Majethia “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So, let us be loving, hopeful, and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” – Jack Layton “There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.” – Charlotte Brontë “Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.” – Rosa Parks “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” – Albert Schweitzer “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” – Paulo Coelho “Love grows when watered with time, trust, and tenderness.” – Unknown “Nobody has ever measured – not even poets – how much love the human heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou “Love is too precious to be ashamed of.” – Laurell K. Hamilton “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” – Janos Arany Quotes of the Day on Self-Love “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” – Shannon L. Alder “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.” – Deborah Day “Be so completely yourself that everyone else feels safe to be themselves, too.” – Diane Von Furstenberg “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.” – George R.R. Martin “I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” – Maya Angelou “Our first and last love is self-love.” – Christian Nestell Bovee “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” – Marilyn Monroe “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Choose, everyday, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love.” – Alison Malee “You’re not just enough; you’re everything you need to be.” – Unknown “Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself.” – Don Miguel Ruiz “You can’t pour from an empty cup, so fill yours with self-love first.” – Unknown “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball “The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.” – Robert Hand “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” – Helen Keller “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” – Frederick Douglass “Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.” – Thaddeus Golas “Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters. You will, too.” – Jennae Cecelia “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses.” – Bob Moawad “We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.” – Mary Dunbar “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that.” – Stacey Charter Short and Powerful Quotes of the Day “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt “To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.” – Jerry Seinfeld “Think and wonder. Wonder and think.” – Dr. Seuss “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” – Anne Frank “There is no way to be perfect and no fun in being perfect.” – Alicia Keys “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson “What we think, we become.” – Buddha “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Virginia Woolf “Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?” – Bob Marley “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” – Jon Bon Jovi “People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise.” – Bill Murray “I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.” – Emile Zola “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” – Frank Zappa “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” – Jean-Paul Sartre “Life itself is the proper binge.” – Julia Child “Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective.” – Sterling K. Brown “Most people are nice when you finally see them.” – Harper Lee Want more inspiration and motivation for today? Then check out these short happy quotes , this post filled with inspirational good morning quotes and also this one that’s all about living a positive life . Free Exclusive Happiness Tips Subscribe to The Positivity Newsletter and get weekly tips on happiness, self-esteem and plenty more. 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