67 Positive and Hopeful Quotes on Better Days Ahead
When life feels heavy, it helps to hear that better days are coming.
So we’ve put together a list of all the best better days quotes to lift your mood and help you stay hopeful.
And if you’re looking for short hopeful sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Quotes on Better Days
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” — Maya Angelou
“You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!” — Aly Raisman
“A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to you. It’s all a matter of perception.” — Donald L. Hicks
“It’s a great day to be alive. I know the sun’s still shining when I close my eyes.” — Travis Tritt
“We don’t ‘have’ a great day, we ‘make it’ a great day!” — Frosty Westering
“Every single day is a good day no matter how bright or dark it is because it always brings an opportunity to start a positive beginning in your life.” — Edmond Mbiaka
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” — Steve Jobs
“Today’s a great day to change a life. Starting with yours.” — Robin Sharma
“Every situation in life is temporary so, when life is good, make sure you enjoy and receive it fully. And when life isn’t so good, remember that it will not last forever and better days are on the way.” — Jenni Young
“The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.” — Hubert H. Humphrey
“As you wait for better days, don’t forget to enjoy today, in case they’ve already started.” — Robert Breault
“Have faith in tomorrow, for it can bring better days. Never wish for yesterday, for it has gone its separate ways. Believe in today, for it’s what you’re living now.” — Tonya K. Grant
“Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.” — Mark Twain
“Always remember that better days are ahead if not in this life, in the next.” — Barbara Johnson
“Pause and remember nothing lasts forever. Better days are coming, but they will come faster with faith.” — Jennifer Young
“The very second you begin to doubt is the minute you lose sight of your outcome. Even in our darkest hour, will we find better days. Don’t let the years pass, reflecting the light that becomes your shadow.” — Richard Tovish
“Don’t ever lose hope because better days will come.” — Ana Monnar
“If you were a quitter you would have given up on life a long time ago. The fact that you’re still here proves that you’re a fighter with hopes of better days.” — Sonya Parker
“Better days are coming, I wish that they could bare with me. So all the blessings that I get, they can share it with me.” — Gudda Gudda
“I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.” — Rosa Parks
“Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow after you have done your best to achieve success today.” — Maxwell Maltz
“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” — James Joyce
“Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.” — Muhammad Ali
“Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It’s an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It’s a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.” — Pearl Cleage
“Never give up believing that there is hope for better days to come. Bad things happen for a reason and sometimes it is to bring us to those better days.” — Nishan Panwar
“Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
“Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.” — Dave Matthews
“If you wish to live to see better days, then you must endure the bad days.” — Isaiah Harden
“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.” — Abdul Kalam
“When you change, everything will change for you. When you get better, everything will get better for you.” — Jim Rohn
“All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.” — Wendell Berry
“The world awakens on the run and will soon be earning with hopes of better days to come. It’s a morning yearning.” — Ben Harper
“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” — Jack Ma
“Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.” — Frank Scoblete
“I close my eyes and I can see a better day. I close my eyes and pray.” — Justin Bieber
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Everyday is a good day, just some days are better.” — Farrah Fawcett
“There is no better day than today to do the things you’ve been putting off. Take action; it’s the only way to change your life!” — Hal Elrod
“Bad days always promise a better day tomorrow.” — Arieana E.
“If ever you have looked on better days; if ever been where bells have knolled to church; if ever sat at any good man’s feast; if ever from your eyelids ever wiped a tear, and know what ’tis to pity and be pitied, let gentleness my strong enforcement be.” — William Shakespeare
“I feel the best is past.” — William Shakespeare
“We have seen the best of our time.” — William Shakespeare
“Green be the turf above thee, friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee. Nor named thee but to praise.” — Fitz-Greene Halleck
“A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.” — Aphra Behn
“Ninety nine percent of the time we have an opportunity to be grateful for something. We just don’t notice it. We go through our days in a daze.” — David Steindl-Rast
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” — Virginia Woolf
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with—nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mixtape tells a story. Put them together and they can add up to the story of a life.” — Rob Sheffield
“The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, hoping for better ones ahead. The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful.” — Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.” — Nicholas Sparks
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Remember me in better days like these, in the turning of the leaves, in Idaho we can learn from years ago, nestled in the faint of the wire.” — Mario William Vitale
“Now they are gone, gone as thy setting blaze goes down the west, while night is pressing on, and with them the old tale of better days, and trophies of remembered power, are gone. Yon field that gives the harvest, where the plough strikes the white bone, is all that tells their story now.” — William Cullen Bryant
“With oar-strokes timing to their song, they weave in simple lays the pathos of remembered wrong, the hope of better days.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
“It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to new and better days, but revelations, lavishness and torments of someone’s soul, inspired and ablaze.” — Boris Paternak
“Seek for better days amidst the grave gotta be brave. These are the days when anything goes yet it’s coming down to the wire. Going to take you higher.” — Mario William Vitale
“Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“There are more glorious days ahead, this should be your joy for today.” — Laila Gifty Akita
“It was a pretty good day, I think we are just probably slightly ahead.” — Shane Warne
“I’m just a dreamer. I dream my life away. I’m just a dreamer who dreams of better days.” — Ozzy Osbourne
“If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.” — Ishmael
“A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.” — Art Linkletter
“I myself often wished to be spared the expectations of better days ahead or such.” — Daniel Woodrell
“Don’t ever lose hope because better days are coming.” — Anna Monar
“Everyday is a good day, just some days are better.” — Farah Fawcett
“Accepting reality yet hoping for great days to come is a necessity to keep on going forward and believing in You…” — Ritu Ghatourey
“The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.” — Don Rickles
