168 Daily quotes for a regular dose of insight, amusement, and inspiration.

Always remember, the goals that we have achieved pale in comparison to the daily commitments it took to get there.”

Dabo Swinney

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

Abraham Lincoln

This famous quote reminds us to focus on the day in front of us.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Aristotle

When we grow weary, this quote swoops in to remind us to persevere.

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

Winston S. Churchill

Don't find fault, find a remedy: anyone can complain.”

Henry Ford

If there’s something tough going on at home or work, this quote can go on a poster to keep the focus on resolving the “now” instead of falling into a habit of complaint.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”

Babe Ruth

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily.”

Zig Ziglar

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Thomas Edison

There are lots of daily motivational quotes like this one from history’s lauded scientists, which tells us something about the work needed to do impactful things.

I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”

Benjamin Franklin

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”

Maya Angelou

If you’re really dragging one day, read this quote, and ask: why am I here, if not to thrive?

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

John D. Rockefeller

Anyone with ambitious goals knows this feeling: you want to test your limits, not settle for what’s “fine.” This motivational quote says, “the risk is worth it.”

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”

Wayne Gretzky

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”

Rosa Parks

Motivation isn’t only a combustible that propels you forward. It’s also a magnet, a choice, a desire, that pulls you forward.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

Thomas Jefferson

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

Henry David Thoreau

As a daily motivational quote, read this and ask yourself, “am I fixated on the outcome or focused on the task?”

Well done is better than well said.”

Benjamin Franklin

Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right.”

Henry Ford

A short motivational quote like this one fits onto a flyer that people can fold up, take home, or share.

The secret of success is determined by your daily agenda.”

John C. Maxwell

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

Zig Ziglar

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

Albert Einstein

The visuals that could go with this quote on a poster flash instantly across your mind’s eye.

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

Jim Rohn

Whatever you are, be a good one.”

Abraham Lincoln

As far as inspirational quotes go, this one is a favorite. In one breath, Lincoln says that you can be whatever you want to be — what’s most important is to do your best at whatever that is.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

Babe Ruth

Even when you feel like you’re making little progress, this daily motivational quote insists, “you can’t lose if you keep going.”

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is the same life, whether we spend it laughing or crying.”

Japanese Proverb

Attitude is the ‘little thing’ that makes a big difference.”

Winston S. Churchill

Daily positive quotes give us an opportunity to regularly check in on our attitude.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

Omar Khyyam

The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”

Nelson Mandela

Famous positive quotes, daily reminders, and life lessons all converge in this Mandela quote. In the context of his life, the message becomes even more powerful.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

Mother Teresa

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

Maria Robinson

Positive daily quotes see every day as a new start.

Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.”

Stephanie Bennett Henry

This memorable quote can be used in an Instagram story. (Be sure to tag anyone who needs to see it.)

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi

If you can’t have the best of everything, make the best of everything you have.”

Amish Proverb

Positivity quotes often talk about acceptance and appreciation.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

Abraham Lincoln

You do not find the happy life. You make it.”

Thomas S. Monson

Happy daily quotes are hallmarked by truisms like this one: life isn’t easy, but we do have choices.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

Buddha

Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window — or break down a door.”

Brooke Shields

Happiness doesn’t mean “without problems.” It means that problems are dealt with instead of deplored.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

What better daily reminder than this one to check in and ask yourself, “how have I made people feel today?”

We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one.”

Confucius

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”

Jon Bon Jovi

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”

Dali Lama

A ship is always safe by the shore, but that is not what it’s built for.”

John A. Shedd

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”

Wilma Rudolph

Ask yourself what “sun” is shining in your life on a given day, and you’ll feel its warmth rise.

Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

Roald Dahl

In the same way that those who don’t believe in magic won’t ever see it, those who don’t believe in positivity will never find it.

If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.”

Dolly Parton

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

Aesop

No moment of positivity, however small, is ever wasted, either.

Happiness is not by chance but by choice.”

Jim Rohn

Keep reading for more happiness quotes to add to your daily routine.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”

Elbert Hubbard

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

Bruce Lee

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

Robert Collier

Collier makes a good case for using daily quotes for work, don’t you think?

I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

Venus Williams

Inspiration comes of working every day.”

Charles Baudelaire

What Baudelaire is saying here is that inspiration is not an external force that makes things easy. Rather, it’s the result of putting in the work every day and gaining experience a

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”

Steve Jobs

Does work create pressure that pins you down? Or is it a pressure that builds beneath you and propels you forward?

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

Newt Gingrich

Work is often redundant, sometimes monotonous, and regularly tiresome. Daily work quotes help keep perseverance in perspective.

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

Vince Lombardi

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.”

G.K. Nielson

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

Thomas Fowell Buxton

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

Albert Einstein

All things are difficult before they are easy.”

Thomas Fuller

As a daily quote for work, this could refer to how hard it is to dig into your to-do list in the morning.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”

Augusta F. Kantra

When was the last time you thought about what you wanted most at work? When this daily work quote pops up, it’s an opportunity to ask yourself that.

A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence.”

Jim Watkins

This metaphor evokes a visual that could be used in a poster or flyer.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”

Stephen R. Covey

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”

Norman Ralph Augustine

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

This is a great work quote to share with colleagues in a card.

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

Thomas Edison

For daily stoic quotes that shape your mindset at work and in life, look to this one. Turn this into a mantra: each time you try could be the time you succeed.

Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.”

Jeffrey Gitomer

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”

George Shinn

A little recognition for a team effort goes well on a poster for the breakroom.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.”

Diana Ross

For more on success and career, keep reading these work quotes.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.”

Neil Armstrong

I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

Estée Lauder

Short daily work quotes are great for banners. This one is best for a team celebration when a goal is reached.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

Napoleon Hill

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

Helen Keller

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

Oscar Wilde

Daily affirmation quotes work best when they’re memorable, like this funny Oscar Wilde one.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

Zig Ziglar

Put this on a poster, and it will apply to everything you ever try to procrastinate.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

Thomas A. Edison

Don't count the days, make the days count.”

Muhammad Ali

Shorter daily life quotes can be memorized and used as mantras.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

George Bernard Shaw

Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.”

Ashton Kutcher

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Love daily quotes are about more than being in love. They have insights that help us become better partners, too.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

Gloria Steinem

Whatever you’re dreaming of, you’re closer than you realize to understanding your first steps. Why not start today?

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Do you know someone who ended up somewhere they didn’t expect to be in life? Share this quote in a card or letter and tell that person how you can relate.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.”

Neil Armstrong

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

Leonardo Da Vinci

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is another excellent daily affirmation quote. What could you do with this and other daily affirmation quotes in a collage?

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”

Michael Jordan

Life is too short to spend another day at war with yourself.”

Ritu Ghatourey

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”

Zora Neale Hurston

This daily love quote comes packing a strong visual. Use this quote in a card to tell your partner, “thank you.”

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.”

Dolly Parton

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.”

Lillian Dickson

Consider your whole life a $10,000 bill. Each day becomes a penny. Use daily life quotes to check in and ask what you really want to spend each penny on.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Viktor E. Frankl

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

Combine love daily quotes and happiness daily quotes, and you get this. Keep reading love quotes for some added wisdom.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.”

James Cameron

Life quotes like this one can inspire you every day you see them.

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

A.A. Mine, Winnie the Pooh

This simple affirmation might sound corny on some days, but on others, it’s exactly the reminder you need.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

Judy Garland

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.”

Robert Frost

You are only young once. After that you have to think up some other excuse.”

Billy Arthur

Not only is this a fun daily quote, it’s also perfect for a birthday card.

Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.”

Mallory Hopkins

Use this quote in a collage of your favorite smiling photos.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.”

Mark Twain

Misery might love company, but so does joy. And joy throws much better parties.”

Billy Ivey

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”

Bill Watterson

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”

Oscar Wilde

This can be a great quote to use when tagging someone on a social post who you know is less-than-thrilled with their job.

People can’t drive you crazy if you don’t give them the keys.”

Mike Bechtle

Deliver this as a daily dose of laughter to all your friends in an Instagram story.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

George Burns

Love is blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.”

Pauline Thomason

There are plenty more marriage quotes where this one came from.

Happiness? That’s nothing more than good health and a poor memory.”

Albert Schweitzer

Whatever you do, always give 100% — unless you’re donating blood.”

Bill Murray

Could you use this quote on a flyer for a blood drive? Blood donation is no joking matter, but funny quotes used where we least expect them become even funnier.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

Jack Benny

My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.”

Tina Fey , Bossypants

I never forget a face — but in your case, I’ll be glad to make an exception.”

Groucho Marx

For even more funny daily quotes, think of your favorite comedies and collect quotes from them. This classic by Groucho can get you started.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

Kurt Vonnegut

If you hadn’t had this epiphany yet, it will “click” when this shows up in your daily quotes.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.”

Helen Rowland

Everybody wants to save the earth. No one wants to help Mom do the dishes.”

P.J. O'Rourke

Use this funny quote on a poster, and it could be a great gift for Mother’s Day.

I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?”

Jean Illsley Clarke

You know you’ve reached middle age when you’re cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.”

Joan Rivers

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance: waiting for the bathroom.”

Bob Hope

There are funny quotes on nearly every topic, it seems.

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: You wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.”

John Gotti

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe.”

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein had a famous sense of humor, and his great scientific achievements make this quote even funnier.

In order to maintain a well-balanced perspective, the person who has a dog to worship him should also have a cat to ignore him.”

Peterborough Examiner, Canada

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.”

Philip K. Dick

If this daily quote pops up on the right day, it could turn a stressful situation into a good laugh.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”

Wendy Mass , The Candymakers

The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

Buddha

Daily manifestation quotes are a reminder to check in on your mindset.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”

Winston S. Churchill

When using this quote, you could play with the repeated words “opportunity” and “difficulty.”

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”

Maya Angelou

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Jane Goodall

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

Oprah Winfrey

This quote is short enough to use in an Instagram story.

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. Make it a habit, and when the need arises you will be in practice.”

Billy Graham

Spiritual daily quotes and prayer quotes give us insights into our relationship with faith.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

Socrates

For a dose of classic wisdom, this Socrates quote turns negative energy on its head.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

Edith Wharton

The visual that this quote conjures could make for a memorable design on a poster.

Beware of the small things. A small leak can sink a great ship.”

Tshepo H. Maloa

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”

Nathaniel Branden

For more insights like this one, there are plenty of wisdom quotes to choose from.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is a nugget of wisdom you definitely want to absorb before you find yourself on the other side of regret.

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”

Albert Schweitzer

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”

Shannon L. Alder

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”

Roy T. Bennett

This is another quote that could be fun to play with on a poster since it has repeated words and sentence structure.

Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”

Eleanor Brown

That last line, “you cannot serve from an empty vessel,” is a bit of wisdom that we need to be reminded of frequently.

The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower. The rose is merely the evidence of the vitality of the root.”

Woodrow Wilson

Flower quotes like this one are often packed with metaphors.

Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.”

Zig Ziglar

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

Jack Kornfield

Give me faith, Lord, and let me help others find it.”

Leo Tolstoy

Blessing daily quotes can be used as blessings, themselves.

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

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”

Randy Pausch ...not just for you! Show gratitude to someone else.

Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”

Roy T. Bennett

This quote can reframe many difficult and upsetting things we experience.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

William Arthur Ward

This is absolutely true, and most of us are guilty of it. What are you grateful for that you haven’t expressed yet?

Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.”

Amy Collette

How has a daily gratitude practice impacted your sense of happiness?

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”

Elie Wiesel

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

Voltaire

Look at this quote each morning for a week. Ask yourself every time, “what’s something I appreciate in someone I know?”

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

Pablo Picasso ...talk about reflection daily quotes(?)!

What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.”

Franz Grillparzer

Use daily reflection quotes to identify things you consider “insignificant,” but which form pieces of bigger things you are grateful for.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”

W. Clement Stone

The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”

Neale Donald Walsh

Gratitude and struggle can’t co-exist. Share this quote in a card or letter with someone who’s struggling.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation."

John Ortberg

I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be.”

Habeeb Akande

When the going gets tough, check in with this quote and ask yourself: “would I be OK going back to the ‘me’ I was a year ago?” Most of us balk at the idea. That says there’s something to be grateful for in the present.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”

Henry Van Dyke

Would you have ever thought to define “gratitude” and “thankfulness” differently?

When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty, my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.”

Sam Lefkowitz

I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”

Will Arnett

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”

W.T. Purkiser

This gratitude quote shows us what comes after putting gratitude into words. Next, we put it into actions.

We must find the time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”

John F. Kennedy

Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.”

Arianna Huffington

Perhaps this is why we have daily gratitude quotes.

Give thanks for a little, and you will find a lot.”

Hausa Proverb

It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”

David Steindl-Rast

If you only feel grateful when you’re joyful, and you don’t choose gratitude when you’re down, then you’re missing out on the richest kind of gratitude.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”

William Faulkner

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

Epicurus

The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Keep the daily gratitude going with more gratitude quotes.