100 Quotes to Improve Your Mood Today
As leaders, often our most important task in the moment is to control our state. Awareness of our changing mindset is key.
Let’s face it. Some days, life throws us a curve that we didn’t anticipate. When that happens, it’s helpful to find inspiration in the wisdom of others.
If you find yourself in need of some inspiration, check out these mood-boosting quotes to help you get your mindset right. These are 100 of my favorite mood boosting quotes. Enjoy!
“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.”
Nelson Mandela
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Pablo Picasso
“Some days are just bad days, that are 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 Tesse
“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.”
Deep Roy
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
Napoleon Hill
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard’, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
Sydney Harris
“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 most wasted of days is one without laughter.”
E. E. Cummings
“Bad days make you stronger, those are the best days because God is talking to you. You just have to listen closely. Don’t let your tears become louder than his voice.”
Les Simple
“Every day, think as you wake up: Today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.”
Dalai Lama XIV
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
Buckminster Fuller
“You’re braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
A. A. Milne/Christopher Robin
“The best revenge is massive success.”
Frank Sinatra
“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is youer than you!”
Dr. Seuss
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”
Robert Frost
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.”
Arianna Huffington
“However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope.”
Stephen Hawking
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
Christian D. Larson
“The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you’ll see there’s a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.”
Deepak Chopra
“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”
Ellen DeGeneres
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
Maya Angelou
“On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin.”
Gregory S. Williams
“Life has its pains and evils—its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the world, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold…”
W.E.B. Du Bois
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
President Thomas Jefferson
“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
President Abraham Lincoln
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
George Weinberg
“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas Edison
“When you cease to dream you cease to live.”
Malcolm Forbes
“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows. “
Helen Keller
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Steve Jobs
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. “
Mahatma Gandhi
” Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
Helen Keller
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach. And it’ll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build.”
Steve Wozniak
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
Jim Rohn
“But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.”
Arianna Huffington
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. “
Dale Carnegie
“My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.”
Steve Goodier
“No matter where you are on your journey, that’s exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.”
Jimmy Spithill
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
Katharine Hepburn
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
Steve Maraboli
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains”.
Anne Frank
“We all have battles to fight. And it’s often in those battles that we are most alive: it’s on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work.”
Eric Greitens
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
Charles F. Kettering
“I avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward.”
Charlotte Bronte
“There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”
Pearl Buck
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
Lily Tomlin
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength – if we have the virtue of resilience.”
Eric Greitens
“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong… I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”
Audrey Hepburn
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
Roald Dahl
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
Margaret Thatcher
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.”
J.K. Rowling
“I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.”
Thuli Madonsela
“We grow great by dreams.”
President Woodrow Wilson
“We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”
J. K. Rowling
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
William James
“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”
Criss Jami
“Successful people demonstrate their resilience through their dedication to making progress every day, even if that progress is marginal.”
Jonathan Mills
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
Dalai Lama
“It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.”
Confucius
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
Mary Anne Radmacher
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
Robert Collier
“It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.”
Confucius
“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
Germany Kent
“If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.”
Shane Koyczan
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
Robert Collier
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Khalil Gibran
“Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.”
Joel Osteen
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching.”
William W. Purkey
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway
“It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.”
Bram Stoker
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
Omar Kayyam
“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.”
Gever Tulley
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
William Ellery Channing
“Don’t search for the meaning of life. Simply be present for the people you love.”
Maxime Lagacé
“Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.”
Gary Keller
“There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
Nelson Mandela
“You only live once, but if you do it right once is enough.”
Mae West
“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.”
Chris Bradford
“Like tiny seeds with potent power to push through tough ground and become mighty trees, we hold innate reserves of unimaginable strength. We are resilient.”
Catherine DeVrye
“Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.”
Kenneth Branagh
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
“She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”
Elizabeth Edwards
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
Maya Angelou
“Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.”
Emil Dorian
“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”
Theodore N. Vail
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
Haruki Murakami
Strength, perseverance, and hope are key qualities that are repeatedly mentioned in these mood-boosting quotes.
With action, patience, and perseverance better days will come.
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Choose to make it a great day.
