Inspirational Quotes to Get You Through A Bad Day

Quotes For Leaders

As leaders, not every day is perfect.  We can manage our mindset, lead with authenticity and integrity, and still…the day doesn’t go the way we hoped.  We have a bad day.

This collection of quotes is designed to inspire leaders like you to keep pushing and driving through that bad day AND to give you perspective for how great tomorrow can be.

Enjoy these 20 inspirational quotes for a bad day.


When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you

Patrick Stump


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


Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Marcus Aurelius


I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Martha Washington


You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Epicurus


There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live…..the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. –

Alexander Dumas


Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon


When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.

Stephen Richards


I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

Paul Henderson

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Earl Nightingale


You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

A.A Milne


Be patient. Sometimes you have to go through the worst to get to the best. Give time some time.

Karen Salmansohn


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


A single fracture does not imply that you are smashed, it indicates that you were probed and yet you didn’t fall to pieces.

Linda Poindexter


Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Charlie Chaplin


Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Anais Nin


In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein



Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.

Francesca Reigler


• Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. 

Robert Schuller


Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe Ruth

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Make it a great day!

Todd Hustel

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