50 Inspirational Quotes to Lift Your Spirits on a Bad Day

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% of how you react."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"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.

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

- Isabel Allende

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come."

- Zig Ziglar

"Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is."

- Anne Frank

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"Even in the growth mindset, failure can be a painful experience. But it doesn’t define you. It’s a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from."

- Carol Dweck

"You will come across obstacles in life—fair and unfair. and you will discover, time and time again, that what matters most is not what these obstacles are, but how we see them, how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure."

- Ryan Holiday

"You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

- Sophia Bush

"Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather."

- Pema Chödrön

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Failure is the caterpillar. Success is the butterfly."

- Peta Kelly

"In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go."

- Jack Kornfield

"If you don’t try at anything you can’t fail… it takes backbone to lead the life you want."

- Richard Yates

"… for a man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It is the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

- Paulo Coehlo

"Where there’s life there’s hope."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."

- Willa Cather

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

- Carl G. Jung

"Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!"

- Dita Von Teese

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."

- Rick Riordan

"Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective."

- Colleen Hoover

"Be patient. Sometimes you have to go through the worst to get to the best. Give time some time."

- Karen Salmansohn

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"There’s always a way through every challenge. You need a heart full of commitment. A lens focused on positivity. And a willingness to travel unexplored paths. Faith forward. You’ll get there."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline."

- Jim Collins

"When you do something beautiful, and nobody noticed, do not be sad, for the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, yet most of the audience still sleeps."

- John Lennon

"Let nothing due to a cause outside yourself disturb your calm."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle."

- Paulo Coelho

"The bad days are more important than the good days. If you write or exercise or meditate or cook when you don’t feel like it, then you maintain the habit. And if you maintain the habit, then all you need is time."

- James Clear

"You’re a fighter. Look at everything you’ve overcome. Don’t give up now."

- Olivia Benson

"Sometimes, the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up."

- Brene Brown

"My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

- Maya Angelou

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

- Mother Teresa

"Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be."

- Eckhart Tolle

"When nothing goes my way, when all attempts fail, when the darkest clouds in the sky seem bent on hovering over me while everyone with whom I come into contact flashes a nasty scowl, I find some comfort in the thought of a fresh tomorrow. I am thankful for the opportunity to try again."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Growth is uncomfortable because you’ve never been here before – you’ve never been this version of you. So give yourself a little grace, a breath through it."

- Kristin Lohr

"Don’t you dare shrink yourself for someone else’s comfort. Do not become small for people who refuse to grow."

- Steve Maraboli

"When you learn how much you’re worth, you’ll stop giving people discounts."

- Helen Keller

"You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Everyone has their good and bad days. You just have to go with the flow and make the most of whatever comes your way."

- Andrea Jeremiah

"The tempests of life can die down as though they had never been."

- F.M. Mayor

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Everyone goes through bad days, but that does not mean you should stop enjoying the good days."

- S. Sreesanth

"It’s the will, not the skill."

- Jim Tunney

"Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months."

- Tom Waits

"There is no good day or bad day, only good or bad actions."

- Amit Kalantri

"We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day."

- Brad Meltzer

"Anyone can have a good day. The question is, what do you do on a bad day? That’s when you’re being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day."

- Arthur Golden

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Amid Winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to."

- Robin Williams

"Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines."

- Robert H. Schuller

"There is no education like adversity."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"A bad day doesn’t cancel out a good life. Keep going."

- Richie Norton

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It’s impossible to swim, bike and run for the best part of a day and not experience bad times."

- Chrissie Wellington

"On a bad day, I’ll still have a conscious thing in my mind reminding me that what I think of as a bad day is still a very good day in probably 90% of the world’s population’s eyes."

- Daniel Ricciardo

"The way I see it, if you want the Rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?"

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"A day gone is a day gone. As they say, don’t let a bad day turn into a bad year. Every sunset is an opportunity to reset."

- Richie Norton

"Never give up on someone who is having a bad day. Tomorrow could be yours."

- Giovannie de Sadeleer

"What? You’re having a bad day? Think of those who didn’t wake up this morning and can no longer live this day."

- Patty Medina

"In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma - but never let him be the period, because it may just be a bad day, not a bad life!"

- Usman Aman

"The cloud is not the disturbance. The fact that you have stopped looking at the rest of the sky is what is disturbing you."

- Sarita Mian

"Keep calm when things don’t go according to your expectations! Beautiful things always meet friction!"

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."

- Martha Washington

"A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story."

- Glennon Melton

"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters."

- Loretta Young

"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help."

- Bill Watterson

"God’s plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day."

- Louie Giglio

"Every day is another chance to get stronger, to eat better, to live healthier and to be the best version of you."

"Some people would love to have your bad days. No matter how bad your days are, some people would still be ready to exchange their life with yours."

"Repeat after me… I am stronger than this challenge. And this challenge is making me even stronger."

"When you feel like quitting, remember why you started."

"We have to live through the bad days to get to the good ones. Hang in there… they are coming."

"Take a deep breath. It’s just a bad day, not a bad life."

"Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again."

"Sometimes you need those bad days because it helps you truly appreciate the good ones."

"When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you."

"Just remember, even your worst days only have twenty-four hours."

"When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars."