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Daily Inspiration Quotes to Motivate Your Day

Everybody needs a little emotional boost now and then, which is why we have put together a list of all the best daily inspiration quotes for you to share. And if you’re looking for short daily inspiration quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.

Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

Daily Inspiration Quotes

“Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it’s even begun.” – Catherine McCormack

“Sunday on the beach, having seashells in the pocket, sand in the shoes, was the day to refuel our souls and be grateful to the blessings.” – Ejump

“I do remember dreamy Wednesdays, In the rain creative pain.” – The Wannadies

“Every new day gives me ceaseless hope to reach out for my dreams.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“There were many reasons to regard Saturday as the second best day after Friday.” – R. Phillip Ritter

“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.” – Dalai Lama

“Every morning is a revolution against the darkness.” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Tuesday is a good day, you survived Monday. And tomorrow is Wednesday, half way through your work week!” – Kate Summers

“Remember that even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise, and, with it, a new day.” – Victor Hugo

“It’s not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It’s that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where everyday are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make everyday a play-day…” – James A. Murphy

“Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I’m a man of simple pleasures.” – Arthur Darvill

“On a lazy Saturday morning when you’re lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one.” – Lynn Johnston

“How I long for the day to come when Sunday is every day of the week.” – Byron Pulsifer

“And whether it is Thursday or the day is stormy, With thunder and rain, or the birds attack each other, We have rolled into another dream.” – John Ashbery

“I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.” – Charmaine J. Forde

“First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.” – Ovid

“Wednesday is a day to help others celebrate life. You and only you are accountable for what you extend and give to others. One smile not only increases your value but it gives joy to each person you meet.” – Byron Pulsifer

“Friday is a day to finish your goals for the week. It is a day to celebrate that which you set out to accomplish at the beginning of the week. Well done.” – Byron Pulsifer

“Everyday is Monday….till Friday.” – Viktor VolksPrater

“Friday fills my day with hope & happiness.” ― Anthony T. Hincks

“The only good Monday is a Monday in bed” – Lee Horton

“Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.” – Drew Barrymore

“It can’t be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.” – George Weah

“I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don’t like myself, there’s no reason to even live the life.” – Gabourey Sidibe

“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

“Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today’s actions to tomorrow’s results. There’s a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.” – Gary Ryan Blair

“Thursday comes and the week’s gone.” – George Herbert

“Don’t wait all week for Friday so you can enjoy life. Find a job you love so you can enjoy every day of the week.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.” – Margaret Thatcher

“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” – Robert H. Goddard

“There isn’t a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.” – Anton Chekhov

“Be the morning in everyone’s eyes and make their day turn into a thing of beauty.” ― Anthony T. Hincks

“Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week!” – Lee Fox Williams

“Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” – Bil Keane

“Tuesday is the affirmation that my goals are being moved another step forward.” – Byron Pulsifer

“What about Monday? That could be one day we look at things the same way and wear funny shoes.” – Kevin Dalton

“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce

“You are in control. Never allow your Monday to be manic.” – Andrea L’Artiste

“Participate in your dreams today. There are unlimited opportunities available with this new day. Take action on those wonderful dreams you’ve had in your mind for so long.” – Steve Maraboli

“What do sharks do on Monday mornings? They get up and start biting. That’s me.” – Gemma Collins

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Let Tuesday tarnish your day with love and smiles. Happy Tuesday.” – Anthony T. Hincks

“Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.” – Douglas Pagels

“People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness.” – Raimonda.B

“Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.”

“Have a beautiful Tuesday! Your mantra is: ‘All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.’” – Bryan Katie

“Sunday would be lost without Saturday, and I would be lost without you.” – Anthony T. Hincks

“Oh, my sweet Saturday, I have been waiting for you for six long days.” – Charmaine J. Forde

“Feeling blessed, never stressed. Got that sunshine on my Sunday best.” — Surfaces, “Sunday Best”

“Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.” – Swami Sivananda

“The future starts today, not tomorrow.” – Pope John Paul II

“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.” – Joseph Addison

“Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.” – Steven Wright

“It’s Friday morning mankind! Good vibe, don’t frown and let the monster see you smile!” —Napz Cherub Pellazo

“A Wednesday with no rain is a dry hump day.” – Demetri Martin

“Thinking about happy times on a Tuesday is like going to the beach when there is no sun.” – Alain Bremond-Torrent

“Tuesday just called and wants to know what happened to Friday!!” ― Neil Leckman

Inspiring Quotes for Each Day

“Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!” – Kate Summers

“Sunday is a day to clear the mind of all that has transpired the week before.” – Byron Pulsifer

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” – James Allen

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” – Leo Buscaglia

“Friday afternoon feels like heaven…” – El Fuego

“Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.” – Henri Nouwen

“Wednesdays will always bring smiles for the second half of the week.” – Anthony T. Hincks

“Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut, that held its ground.” – David Icke

“Every Monday you wake up is a day to make a change.” – Irvine Welsh

“Today is a brand new day. Forget about yesterday; it does not matter. Forget about tomorrow; it will take care of itself. Concentrate on this day. Make it the best ever.” – Mary-Frances Winters

“On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything.” – Kit Williams

“It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I’d ever known.” – Rob Sheffield

“We live on this speck called Earth – think about what you might do, today or tomorrow – and make the most of it.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“How many things in your life do you do without realizing that they are a waste of time? Use Thursday to take the time to eliminate time-wasters.” – Byron Pulsifer

“Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.” – Ben Zobrist

“For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.” – Amit Ray

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir

“Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.” – Haruki Murakami

“There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can’t wait to go to work? And when you’re ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, ‘I can’t wait to go home?’” – Chuck Schumer

“Tuesday is the most sensible day of the week.” – Emily P. Freeman

“This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.” – Douglas Adams

“Your Monday is not going to be like Saturday; the emotions are going to be different.” – Jean Grae

“Well, there’s nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.” – Chris Klein

“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” -Jack Ma

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”- James Dean

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” – Khalil Gibran

“All great beginnings start in the dark when the moon greets you on a new day at midnight.” – Shannon L. Alder

”Have a great Saturday! Experience life in all possible ways: good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.” – Osho

“I look forward to Fridays because I know I have spent the week offering encouragement, solace, assistance, and good-will to everyone I have met through my journey.” – Byron Pulsifer

“Without Sunday, I wouldn’t know when to put on the brakes of a hurtling life.” – Byron Pulsifer

“There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.” – Kim Jong-un

“Happy Wednesday! Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare

“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.” – L. Ron Hubbard

“Be unto Tuesday in expectation and commitment as unto Monday when vigorousness abounded.” – Byron Pulsifer

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett

“Thursday is one day closer to my expectation that everything I have done through the week culminates in progress.” – Byron Pulsifer

“Tuesday just called and wants to know what happened to Friday!” – Neil Leckman

“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“How would your Tuesday be different if you conducted yourself with complete love and consideration?” – Byron Pulsifer

“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” – Kevyn Aucoin

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz

“Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It’s kind of like trick-or-treating.” – Chuck Palahniuk

“Hold onto positive things that elevate your spirit and be with positive people. Happy Tuesday.” – Tracey Edmonds

Wednesday is the angel of the week because she balances the days evenly for us. Sun, Mon, Tues -Wednesday – Thu, Fri, Sat.” -Anthony T. Hincks.

“You know what Sunday is, and it’s a day with a lot of potential for naps.” – Polly Horvath

“Waiting for Wednesday.” – Lisa Loeb

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” – J. B. Priestley

“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells

“It will not be lonely on Wednesday when it has all around it.” – Anthony T. Hincks

“I think having more Saturdays sounds great.” – Michael Crews

“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” – Yoko Ono

“Come on, come on, turn the radio on, It’s Saturday, and it won’t be long” – Sia

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie

“It’s Thursday and it really feels like a Thursday. Sometimes things just work out.” – Demetri Martin

– Mark Twain

“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.” – John Wyndham

“Happy Wednesday! Happiness is found from within when you learn to appreciate your blessings, LIVE in the present and LOVE!” – Tracey Edmonds

“No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Alexander Pope

“When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.” – Edmond Mbiaka

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then, when luck comes, you are ready.” – Ernest Hemingway

“That’s where the future lies, in the youth of today.” – Willie Stargell

“Candy is natures way of making up for Mondays.” – Rebecca Gober

“Celebrate the new day with shouts of praise, love, and grace, and with a beautiful smile upon your face.” – Caroline Naoroji

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.” – Debbie Ford

“Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life; gifted with hopes to succeed.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.” – S. O’Sade

“Don’t let a day of the week have so much power over your happiness. Happy Monday!” – Andrea L’Artiste

“Every morning is a chance at a new day.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Every morning, I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive, a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.” — Jim Carrey

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston

“I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.” – Ken Wilber

“I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.” – Chip Gaines

“Start your Thursday with an attitude of optimism. It’s going to be a good day!” – Kate Summers

“We never know what a week from next Tuesday is going to hold. It may be an ordinary day filled with quite regular activities and demands. Most of the time that is exactly what a week from next Tuesday will hold.” – Matthew Rich

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Light tomorrow with today!” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Every Friday, I like to high five ourselves for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, will power, and inappropriate humour.” – Nanea Hoffman

“Effort is what is required on Thursday to finish all that needs to be done.” – Kate Summers

“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.” – William Osler

“Let this Thursday be filled with possibilities – be aware of the opportunities around you, don’t just go through the day, live the day with your eyes and your mind open.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.” – Philibert Joseph Roux

“Saturday night is when you want to do what you want to do and not what you have to do.” – Susan Orleans

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.” – E. B. White

“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

“We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday.” – Edward McKendree Bounds

“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” – Dr. Seuss

“Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.” -Candace Parker

“On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it’s true that who is what and what is who.” – Winnie the Pooh

“It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.” – Thomas Sankara

“Thursday is perhaps the worst day of the week. It’s nothing in itself; it just reminds you that the week has been going on too long” – Nicci French

“Weekends welcome warriors for social fun that starts on Friday.” – David Chiles

“Home may be where the heart is but it’s no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.” – Walker Percy

“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!” – William Allen White

“Thursday is one of the days of the week that I strive to maintain a positive outlook.” – Byron Pulsifer

“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” – Charles Spurgeon

“When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” – Ella Woodward

“I’ve got nothing to say but it’s okay, good morning, good morning” — The Beatles

“Every day that you open your eyes is a new day and another day to get it right.” – Jean Renee Porter

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Tuesday is neither here nor there in the hierarchy of the week.” – Anthony T. Hincks

“Elephants love Wednesday, and so will you.” – Anthony T. Hincks

“I’m easy like Sunday morning.” — Commodores

So that is it for our list of Daily Inspiration Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one for you!

For more great ideas, check out our other lists of Monday Morning Quotes, Funny Good Morning Quotes and Short Quotes About Life.

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Laynni Deir

I am Laynni Deir, writer and editor of Purely Lists. There are times when you are looking for inspiration or aren’t sure what to say and I am committed to providing lists of the best quotes, sayings, messages, puns or captions for any occasion. Whether you are looking for a positive quote, a message for a card, a fun saying for a letter board or caption for your next post or story, you will find the perfect option here.

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