Start your day with a burst of motivation and positivity by exploring our carefully curated collection of the top 73 inspiring day quotes. Whether you need a little encouragement to get going or a thoughtful reminder to appreciate the moment, these quotes are sure to brighten your outlook and set the tone for a successful and fulfilling day. Dive in and find the perfect words to inspire your journey ahead.
1. “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
2. “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” - Edgar Allan Poe
3. “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” - Mahatma Gandhi
4. “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” - Henry David Thoreau
5. “Thus went my first Court Day.I think I'm going to puke.” - Tamora Pierce
6. “It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.” - Stephen King
7. “Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.” - Vera Nazarian
8. “If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, it will take fifteen minutes.” - Monty Roberts
9. “Day is just a collection of hours.” - Serj Tankian
10. “Each day has a color, a smell.” - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
11. “Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.” - Aino Kallas
12. “As a child I had been taught to say my prayers at the start of every day, and so it did not seem an odd thing for me to stand out in the field and say "Oh God whatever happens today let it be under your perfect control.” - John Masters
13. “Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called "earth mothers."That’s how some days feel—when they are bountiful and fertile with the power of our imagination.” - Vera Nazarian
14. “Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.Make your lives extraordinary” - Williams Robin Professor Keating
15. “...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.” - Alice Hoffman
16. “The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.” - William Faulkner
17. “I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.” - Samuel Johnson
18. “The day will happenwhether or not you get up” - John Ciardi
19. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” - Mark Twain
20. “And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright unclouded day.” - Emily Brontë
21. “Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.” - Steve Maraboli
22. “De Que São Feitos os Dias? De que são feitos os dias?- De pequenos desejos,vagarosas saudades,silenciosas lembranças.Entre mágoas sombrias,momentâneos lampejos:vagas felicidades,inactuais esperanças.De loucuras, de crimes,de pecados, de glórias- do medo que encadeiatodas essas mudanças.Dentro deles vivemos,dentro deles choramos,em duros desenlacese em sinistras alianças...” - Cecília Meireles
23. “Allah causes the night and the day to succeed each other. Truly, in these things is indeed a lesson for those who have insight.” - Anonymous
24. “Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life.” - Steve Maraboli
25. “The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.” - Leo Tolstoy
26. “love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day...A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!” - Ruskin Bond
27. “As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.” - Criss Jami
28. “It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.” - Jodi Picoult
29. “Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour.” - Sarah Dessen
30. “What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.” - Marie Lu
31. “June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.” - Marie Lu
32. “You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?"June has never looked more beautiful than she does now,unadorned and honest,vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky,her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it.” - Marie Lu
33. “You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me."I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.” - Marie Lu
34. “You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer.I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.” - Marie Lu
35. “The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.” - Steve Maraboli
36. “The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.” - Erin Hunter
37. “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” - Edith Wharton
38. “We stayed all day long. We closed our eyes and paryed, which we had not doen together in a long time. The nurse came in and out of the room. Everything felt awful and I wondered why the whole world didn't seem to notice how bad things really were. I thought of how I'd gotten used to awful, how after my dad died the planets kept on spinning and I got up and ate breakfast every morning and kept going to school. Something happens and it's terrible and you think you can't live another day, but then your mother gets used to it and you get used to it and you both keep on living, and you're not sure if that getting-used-to-things is good or the way life should be.” - Margaret McMullan
39. “Day after day you find a way to make this grown man cry.” - Keith Urban
40. “It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.” - Markus Zusak
41. “The last day is way shorter than counting to ten.” - Leena Ahmad Almashat
42. “Will," she said softly, sleepily. "Last night--" You were kind to me, she was going to say. Thank you. The glare from his blue eyes stabbed through her. "There was no last night," he said through his teeth. At that, she sat up straight, almost awake. "Oh, truly? We just went right from one afternoon on through till the next morning? How odd no one else remarked on it. I should think it some miracle, a day with no night--” - Cassandra Clare
43. “The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.” - Paulo Coelho
44. “Even five minutes of your time can make someone’s day,” - Melina Marchetta
45. “Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.” - Gail Carson Levine
46. “i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone” - James Dashner
47. “The boy who walks in the light” - Marie Lu
48. “The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.” - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
49. “At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.” - Warsan Shire
50. “Now she’s lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night” - David Levithan
51. “Katrai dienai ir savs vārds. Tas atnāk dažreiz kā melodisks motīvs, uzpeld, pārņem un neatstājas.” - Imants Ziedonis
52. “That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ...” - Lemony Snicket
53. “It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.” - Dejan Stojanovic
54. “Into the day as by dream I swim To the music of nourished meaning.” - Dejan Stojanovic
55. “Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night.” - Dejan Stojanovic
56. “He is beauty, inside and out.He is the silver lining in a world of darkness.He is my light.” - Marie Lu
57. “We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.” - Roman Payne
58. “He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.” - Christopher Paolini
59. “Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.” - Marie Lu
60. “[...] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It's as if she came perfectly happy home instead of what Kaede just told me. I feel a relaxing warmth at the thought, realizing suddenly how much I'm anticipating meeting up with Tess again. Where she goes, I go, and vice versa. Peas in a pod.Then there's June.Even the thought of her name makes it hard for me to breathe. I'm almost embarrassed by my reaction. Are June and I a good match? No. It's the first word to pop into my mind.And yet, still.” - Marie Lu
61. “Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life is, of course, a wonderful thing, but not on this day of all days.” - Paul Hoffman
62. “Each and every day begins with a choice, the first influencing the second, the third and so on . . .” - Evinda Lepins
63. “Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.” - Jean Baudrillard
64. “When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.” - Sydney Smith
65. “I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.” - Herman Wouk
66. “Time wastes too fast… the days and hours of it… are flying over our heads like little clouds on a windy day, never to return more – everything presses on – whilst thou art twisting the lock, - see! it grows grey… and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!” - The Life And Opinions of Tristram Shandy
67. “In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.” - Dean Koontz
68. “God gave the day, God gave the strength.” - Leo Tolstoy
69. “Each day carries in the blessings of God and you have unlimited access to all it offers.” - Steve Maraboli
70. “When I see Kaede nod her head in Tess's direction, I rise up from my crouch. This trot's going to choose Tess. Oh, hell no. Not while I'm watching. Not if Kaede wants to live.” - Marie Lu
71. “The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.” - Marie Lu
72. “I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic.” - Marie Lu
73. “Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart. He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.” - Marie Lu
