Best Quotes for Motivation and Inspiration

The Best Quotes to Improve Your Day

Sometimes the words you read can significantly impact your mood and create a new way to move into the day.

They can help ground you when you’re worried or stressed, or help you put into words how you’re feeling inside.

In this blog, we look at some of the best quotes that you can use to motivate and inspire you every day.

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Best Quotes to Start Your Day

1. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day” – Dalai Lama
2. “Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day” – Alice Morse Earl
3. “Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” Bil Keane
4. “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope” – Bernard Williams
5. “Today is a beautiful day for a beautiful day.” – Unknown
6. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
7. “You will never have this day again so make it count!” – Unknown
8. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “The sun is new each day.” – Heraclitus
10. “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” – Buddha
11. “Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. – Mary Pickford
12. “Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.” – William Arthur Ward
13. “Do not count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
14. “An intentional person is one who acts with a sense of purpose and takes responsibility for their own life.” – Gerard Egan
15. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius

Best Quotes on Life to Help You Gain Perspective

1. “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans” – John Lennon
2. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
3. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
4. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” Dalai Lama
5. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” Mae West
6. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
7. “Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
8. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
9. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s own courage.” – Anaïs Nin
10. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
12. “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” – Carl Rogers
13. “As a mountain of rock is unshaken by wind, so also, the wise are unperturbed by blame or by praise.” – The Buddha, The Dhammapada
14. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
15. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King, Jr

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Best Quotes on Happiness

1. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
2. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Unknown
3. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
4. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” – J M. Barrie
5. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
6. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
7. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
8. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
9. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
10. “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.”- Goldie Hawn
11. “Be happy for this moment. This moment in your life.” – Omar Khayyam
12. “If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.” – Steve Maraboli
13. “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast.” – Eddie Cantor
14. “If you look to others for fulfilment, you will never truly be fulfilled.” Lao Tzu
15. “There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.” – Robert Brault

Best Quotes on Self-Awareness

1. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
2. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” – Carl Jung
3. “Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.” – Rupi Kaur
4. “We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.” – Anaïs Nin
5. “How much we know about ourselves is extremely important, but how we treat ourselves is the most important.” – Brené Brown
6. “The only person you can control is YOU. So stop getting mad at people for not being who you want them to be.” – Mel Robbins
7. “Self-awareness is noticing the behavior, self-compassion is understanding the origin, and self-directed action is changing the habit.” – Young Pablo
8. “You are allowed ot be both a masterpiece and a work in progress.” – Sophia Bush
9. “Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.” – Glennon Doyle
10. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)
11. “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” – Eckhart Tolle
12. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings
13. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung
14. “He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.” – Lao Tzu
15. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl

Best Quotes on Personal Growth

1. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
2. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
3. “Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
4. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
5. “Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
6. “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” – John C. Maxwell
7. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
8. “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
9. “Become who you are.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
10. “If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.” – Muhammad Ali
11. “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
12. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
13. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
14. “What you are is where you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” – Buddha
15. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, ‘I’m possible!'” – Audrey Hepburn

Tools, Resources & Support

Here are a few tools and resources I recommend; they may be helpful for mental wellness, productivity or small business growth:

Mood Brain Dump – Create space for your thoughts and check in with how you’re really feeling with this A5 minimalist, printable mental health brain dump journal or planner insert. Use digitally with GoodNotes, or as part of your daily journal.

Etsy – Are you ready to create your own online store? Etsy is a brilliant shopping platform that’s used by millions. Setting up your store is simple, and when you sign up with this link, we both get 40 free listings!

Sellers Society – For those wanting to build a successful online store. A brilliant membership, affordable and packed full of value. Weekly shop audits, challenges, tools to get you started and more! Lauren is great and has created a lovely community.

Pacing Planner – This printable digital pacing planner includes energy awareness activities, a task (brain) dump page, a daily planner page, & 3 sizes (A5, A4, US Letter). Designed to help you manage your daily routine and achieve your goals without burning out.

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Final Thoughts

I hope you liked the best quotes shared in this post! Sometimes a sentence can just click. Whatever you were looking for today, I hope this selection of quotes helped.

What’s your best quote or favourite saying? I’d love to hear from you in the comments below

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