Inspirational everyday quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
Most Famous Everyday Quotes
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne. – Stendhal
If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try. – Seth Godin
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. – Joel Osteen
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew. – Saint Francis De Sales
But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day. – Barack Obama
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller
I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day. – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. – Tenzin Gyatso
In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. – Ray Bradbury
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Leo Buscaglia
Safety and security are the most basic job of government. I understand that – both as a mayor who works every day to secure public safety and reduce crime, and also as someone who deployed in uniform to Afghanistan because I believed joining the military was part of my duty to help keep my country safe. – Pete Buttigieg
God is closest to those with broken hearts. – Jewish
I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat. – Michael Jordan
There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow – Soren Kierkegaard
I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette. – Anthony Hopkins
Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. – Oscar Wilde
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable. – Bobby Bragan
People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn’t kill myself and now, thank God, I’m here. – Nicki Minaj
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. – St. Basil
Comfort was allowed to come to them rare, welcome, unsought: a gift like joy. – Ursula K. Leguin
Freedom is… not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day. – Amanda de Cadenet
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. – Simone De Beauvoir
I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others. – DeForest Kelley
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. – George Eliot
Peace of mind comes when we find comfort in solitude instead of lonlieness. – Robert Alan Silverstein
It’s a comfort level for me. I know I can win out here now. – Williamson
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s. – Princess Diana
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. – Benjamin Franklin
At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. – Alan Alda
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. – Confucius
Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day. – Zig Ziglar
It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. – Kennedy
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. – Murdoch
Every day, I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned. I have visited the laid-off factory workers and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country. – Donald Trump
We needed to give comfort to our customers that gas was going to be available. – Foster
One way to get comfort is to plead the promise of God in prayer, show Him His handwriting; God is tender of His Word. – Thomas Manton
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. – Mark Twain
The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift. – Joel Osteen
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost
