82 Inspirational Quotes for Today to Transform Your Mindset

"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present."

- Bill Keane

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative."

- Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present."

- Joan Rivers

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

"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

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

- Groucho Marx

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"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 III

"Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day."

- Zig Ziglar

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."

- Kevyn Aucoin

"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

- Charles Spurgeon

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

- Ralph Marston

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

- Jack Ma

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

- James Dean

"Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone."

- John Wooden

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!"

- William Allen White

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"Make yourself a priority once in a while. It's not selfish, it's necessary."

- Karen A. Baquiran

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."

- Jeff Bezos

"If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

- B. C. Forbes

"The future starts today, not tomorrow."

- Pope John Paul II

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow."

- L. Ron Hubbard

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."

- Elbert Hubbard

"I always think today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow is better than today."

- G-Dragon

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"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

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."

- Debbi Fields

"Never underestimate the investment you make in yourself."

- Jag Chima

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?"

- William Arthur Ward

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

- Kahlil Gibran

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground."

- David Icke

"Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else."

- Sara Blakely

"When we're growing up, there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

- Norman Cousins

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft."

- Cornel West

"The most important thing that you can do on this planet - elevate, transform and illumine your own consciousness."

- Carlos Santana

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."

- Charles M. Schulz

"The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply."

- Stephen R. Covey

"If you're not a leader on the bench, don't call yourself a leader on the field. You're either a leader everywhere or nowhere."

- Abby Wambach

"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement."

- Abraham Maslow