160 Short Inspirational Quotes for Today
Every day is a new opportunity to find inspiration and embrace positivity.
To help you start today with the right mindset, we’ve gathered the best inspirational quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for uplifting and empowering sayings to motivate your day, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Our Favorite Inspirational Quotes for Today
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible.’” – Audrey Hepburn
“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
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” – Dr. Seuss
“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.” – Zig Ziglar
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” – Charles Spurgeon
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” – James Allen
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.” – L. Ron Hubbard
“No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Alexander Pope
“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
“Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” – Bil Keane
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” – Robert H. Goddard
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain
“The future starts today, not tomorrow.” – Pope John Paul II
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao Tzu
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis
“Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut, that held its ground.” – David Icke
“In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” – Les Brown
“We live on this speck called Earth – think about what you might do, today or tomorrow – and make the most of it.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
“We will either find a way, or make one.” – Hannibal
“Change your life today.” – Nelson Mandela
“It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.” – Thomas Sank
“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston
“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” –Jack Ma
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” – Khalil Gibran
“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz
“There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.” – Kim Jong-un
“ with today!” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.” –Candace Parker
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”- James Dean
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce
“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.” – Margaret Thatcher
“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!” – William Allen White
“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.” – William Osler
“Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.” – Swami Sivananda
“I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.” – Ken Wilber
“That’s where the future lies, in the youth of today.” – Willie Stargell
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” – Kurt Cobain
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.” – Joseph Campbell
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide
“You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.” – Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“You are what your deep, driving desire is.” – Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
“Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.” – Unknown
“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” – Lewis Carroll
“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
“The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?” – Steve Schulte
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
“What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.” – John Lennon
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves!” – Chanakya
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles Kettering
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Don’t regret the past, just learn from it.” – Ben Ipock
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.” – Helen Keller
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” – Jack London
“Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours.” – Tom Hopkins
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” – Isaac Asimov
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
“We are what we think.” – Buddha
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl
“God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.” – Jim Elliot
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” – John Wooden
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Use your own problems to remember that others have problems too.” – Kathleen McDonald
“If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.” – Louise Hay
“Those things that hurt, instruct.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
“Change the world by being yourself.” – Yoko Ono
“Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
Daily Inspirational Quotes
“One day the people that don’t even believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.” – Johnny Depp
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Everyday is Monday….till Friday.” – Viktor VolksPrater
“You are in control. Never allow your Monday to be manic.” – Andrea L’Artiste
“Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I’m a man of simple pleasures.” – Arthur Darvill
“Your Monday is not going to be like Saturday; the emotions are going to be different.” – Jean Grae
“Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.” – Mary Manin Morrissey
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” – Meister Eckhart
“If the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!” – Robert Collier
“Candy is natures way of making up for Mondays.” – Rebecca Gober
“Every Monday you wake up is a day to make a change.” – Irvine Welsh
“What about Monday? That could be one day we look at things the same way and wear funny shoes.” – Kevin Dalton
“Don’t let a day of the week have so much power over your happiness. Happy Monday!” – Andrea L’Artiste
“When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” – Ella Woodward
“When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.” – Edmond Mbiaka
“How would your Tuesday be different if you conducted yourself with complete love and consideration?” – Byron Pulsifer
“It can’t be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.” – George Weah
“Tuesday is a good day, you survived Monday. And tomorrow is Wednesday, half way through your work week!” – Kate Summers
“Thinking about happy times on a Tuesday is like going to the beach when there is no sun.” – Alain Bremond-Torrent
“Have a beautiful Tuesday! Your mantra is: ‘All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.’” – Bryan Katie
“Let Tuesday tarnish your day with love and smiles. Happy Tuesday.” – Anthony T. Hincks
“Tuesday is the affirmation that my goals are being moved another step forward.” – Byron Pulsifer
“Hold onto positive things that elevate your spirit and be with positive people. Happy Tuesday.” – Tracey Edmonds
“Tuesday is the most sensible day of the week.” – Emily P. Freeman
“I do remember dreamy Wednesdays, In the rain creative pain.” – The Wannadies
“Wednesdays will always bring smiles for the second half of the week.” – Anthony T. Hincks
“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela
“A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world.” – Atticus
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.” – Robert Breault
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy
“Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.” – Mark Cuban
“Worry about being better; bigger will take time.” – Gary Comer
“Change the game, don’t let the game change you.” – Macklemore
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.” – Orison Swett Marden
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
“Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.” – Orison Swett Marden
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C. S. Lewis
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” – Saint Augustine
“The only journey is the one within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
