77 Short Feel Better Quotes When You’re Not Okay
Feeling bad doesn’t need a big reason.
Some days just weigh more than others.
Everything feels harder.
Your energy is gone.
You need someone to tell you it’s going to be alright.
But asking for that feels complicated. So you sit with it alone.
That’s when words can help. Not solutions or advice. Just something gentle that acknowledges what you’re going through.
These feel better quotes are exactly that.
They meet you where you are and remind you that rough days don’t last forever.
Short Feel Better Quotes
“’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Tennyson
“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.” — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein
“It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.” — Phil McGraw
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” — Nhat Hanh
“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.” — Pat Riley
“It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” — Confucius
“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.” — Eckhart Tolle
“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.” — Winston Churchill
“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” — Charles F. Kettering
“It’s a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.” — Dale Earnhardt
“You have to be able to accept failure to get better.” — LeBron James
“Be yourself, but always your better self.” — Karl G. Maeser
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.” — Pythagoras
“It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.” — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.” — Og Mandino
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.” — Jasmine Guinness
“It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.” — Gianni Versace
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past — so good night!” — Thomas Jefferson
“It is better to be alone than in bad company.” — George Washington
“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” — Elbert Hubbard
“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.” — Buddha
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” — Bill Bradley
“Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.” — Eric Davis
“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.” — Mwai Kibaki
“I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.” — Elon Musk
“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” — Niccolò Machiavelli
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
“Fitness is not about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be.” — Brett Hoebel
“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.” — William Pollard
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” — Henry Rollins
“Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; Wisdom is better than silver and gold.” — Bob Marley
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.” — Knute Rockne
“Everyone looks so much better when they smile.” — Jimmy Fallon
“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“You don’t get older, you get better.” — Shirley Bassey
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” — William Shakespeare
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” — Mark Twain
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” — Elizabeth Kenny
“Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.” — George Smith Patton
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” — Bo Bennett
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts the better will be his world and the world at large.” — Confucius
“The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.” — Tony Dungy
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” — Zig Ziglar
“You’d better not know so much than know so many things that ain’t so.” — Josh Billings
“Seeing it once is better than being told one hundred times.” — Zhou Chongguo
“Strong and wrong beats weak and right.” — Edward Abott Parry
“Some things are better left undone.” — Florence Burlingame
“Better to cheat than repeat.” — Frances M. Briggs
“Better a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond.” — New York Times
“Half a fish is better than none.” — Philip Geen
“It is better to be pissed off than pissed on.” — John Wood
“Better to die by blows than by jealousy fade away. Better to love a dog than a thankless woman, for a dog is grateful when he is fed.” — New Mexico
“You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.” — Jim Rohn
“No one can know better than the person himself or herself when it hurts most and what relief is needed.” — Yoruba Proverb
“People and things can change for the better.” — Yoruba Proverb
“I wanna get better and stay there / Forever and forever / Like when I hear your voice / My heart rejoices / I wanna get better forever and stay there.” — Amanda Lena Owens
“Better treat people with / Some respect / Because if I don’t do that / I will lose all my friends.” — Aldo Kraas
“As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is a success.” — Tamara Taylor
“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.” — John Burroughs
“I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.” — Diane Lane
“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.” — Tony Blair
“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.” — Margaret Atwood
“You’re better than this. Better than whatever it is you’re going to do now.” — Richelle Mead
“There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.” — Michael Bassey Johnson
“To do better is better than to be perfect.” — Toba Beta
“If you want to see a better world, change the lens through which you see it and do the work to make it better.” — Jeffrey G. Duarte
“When you get real within, you will realize who you are better without.” — Christine E. Szymanski
“We have to make this world change for the better.” — Avijeet Das
“You’re going to use experiences to become either bitter or better. To get better you must reflect on your mistakes.” — Patrick Bet-David
“Sometimes in a process of becoming better, you lose what makes you special.” — Sarvesh Jain
