103 Inspirational Quotes to Help You Deal With a Bad Day

Motivational Quotes to Help You Get Through Bad Days

1. “So you had a bad day. Kick it aside and be grateful for one less bad day to pass through.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
2. “No matter what the day brings and no matter how hard life hits you, if you can breathe, smile and keep moving on!” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
3. “Never give up on someone who is having a bad day. Tomorrow could be yours.” ― Giovannie de Sadeleer
4. “A bad day doesn’t cancel out a good life. Keep going.” ― Richie Norton
5. “Today is a hard day.” Sometimes, there are hard days. Days stretched so tight with pain that they seem as if they can allow no room for hope.” ― Libba Bray
6. “Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.” – Tony Blair
7. “A day gone is a day gone. As they say, don’t let a bad day turn into a bad year. Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” ― Richie Norton
8. “Have the end in mind and every day make sure you are working towards it.” – Ryan P. Allis
9. “When you fail, know that your past is anonymous to the world, so you might as well go about life as if you’ve had a good day.” ― Karl Kristian Flores
10. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
11. “A bad day doesn’t mean a bad week or a bad month or a bad year.” ― Anuj Jasani
12. “Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and ugly, there are shards of beauty if I look for them.” ― Anna White
13. “Keep calm when things don’t go according to your expectations! Beautiful things always meet friction!” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
14. “When you are having a really crappy day, and life seems to be kicking your ass, try to force your self to laugh. If you can achieve a smile and a laugh, you can chase any demons away” ― L.F. Young
15. “You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.” ― Floyd Mayweather Jr.
16. “Today might be shitty, tomorrow might be shitty, the next day might be shitty… but who’s to say that one of the next days won’t be the best day of your life?” ― Benjamin A. Collier
17. “No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.” ― Jojo Moyes
18. “Some days are just born bad. You know the type. The kind you want to sweep into your palm like spilled salt and toss over your left shoulder, hoping that if you don’t look back nothing worse will happen.” ― Marie Rutkoski
19. “Bad times reveal what’s true!” ― Somya Kedia
20. “Some days you get up and you already know that things aren’t going to go well. They’re the type of days when you should just give in, put your pajamas back on, make some hot chocolate and read comic books in bed with the covers up until the world looks more encouraging. Of course, they never let you do that.” ― Bill Watterson
21. “The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
22. “Life is a mix of good and bad phases. Make the most of the good times, and never lose hope during the bad times.” ― Dr Prem Jagyasi
23. “What you seed in your bad time, will be harvested in your good time” ― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
24. “There is no good day or bad day, only good or bad actions.” ― Amit Kalantri
25. “A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to you. It’s all a matter of perception.” ― Donald L. Hicks
26. “The essence of adversity is to show us the real brave people who can withstand it.” ― Israelmore Ayivor
27. “Bad days give experience and worst days give lessons.” ― Brajesh Kumar Singh
28. “I cannot forget two things in my whole life; the bad days I have suffered and good days I have enjoyed” ― M.F. Moonzajer
29. “There will be tears in the best of times and laughter in the worst.” ― Marty Rubin
30. “You call it as my bad time, I call it as my showtime” ― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
31. “There must be bad times in order to appreciate the good ones.” ― Jeffrey Duarte
32. “Even bad times are temporary.” ― Garima Soni
33. “Bad things are actually good things for awakening! But the best thing is to be awakened before the bad things happen!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
34. “Sometimes the good moments hurt much more than the bad.” ― Kate Jacobs
35. “Don’t live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.” ― Germany Kent
36. “My hope is that tomorrow will be fine, but, if tomorrow doesn’t go well, I shall still hope to be fine tomorrow!” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
37. “I figure, sometimes, bad things happen to us so we can achieve a higher purpose and attain greater happiness and fulfillment in life.” ― Omoakhuana Anthonia
38. “Life’s not so much filled with good or bad things. They are just things, but . . . if we give our ‘things’ to someone bigger than us, they become . . . what makes us a better person. So even something we might deem as bad can be good.” ― Jenny Knipfer
39. “Sometimes you go through life and the wrong thing happens.” ― Jennifer Manske Fenske
40. “It’s sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around.” ― Megan Duke
41. “Bad things happen all the time to good people who’ve done nothing to deserve them. Only you can choose how you handle it. Whether to press through and overcome it or succumb to self-pity.” ― Melanie A. Smith
42. “Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
43. “The good and the bad things are part of life. Accept it. The bad is a learning process, you will surpass it. If you do you will be happy and it will be a good thing.” ― Ann Marie Aguilar
44. “Life has its ups and downs. When you are up, enjoy the scenery. When you are down, touch the soul of your being and feel the beauty.” ― Debasish Mridha
45. “It can’t last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn’t last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.” ― Margaret Atwood
46. “See your hard times through the spectacles of your experiences. They, too, shall pass away.” ― Ogwo David Emenike
47. “All times are sacred; good times or bad times.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
48. “I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.” ― Steve Maraboli
49. “If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
50. “Let it rain on some days, let yourself shiver on some cold nights, so when it’s Spring you’ll know why it was all worth going through.” ― Sanhita Baruah
51. “Everyone has adventures in their lives. Some good ones, some bad ones.” ― Sarah Todd Hammer
52. “Life is all about lows and highs like a sound wave. You will be bored hearing a tune with a single note. Modulations makes the tune beautiful, ups and downs make our life crazy.” ― Giridhar Alwar
53. “Life isn’t about the number of ups and downs that you experience, but how you deal with them.” ― Frank Sonnenberg
54. “Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick
55. “That’s the way life is sometimes: you can fix things up, but you can’t make them all better.” ― Amy Joy
56. “Do not be upset because undesirable things occurred in your life because they intended to happen to show you that they do exist for your future cautious.” ― Isaac Nash
57. “That’s life! Sometimes you’re on the horse’s back, and sometimes it’s the horse that’s on your back.” ― Marjane Satrapi
58. “When you live up to your down as much as your up, you can then be OK with everything in between. Therein lies life.” ― Julieanne O’Connor
59. “Life is full of ups and downs, the only way to make the journey worthwhile is if you enjoy the good and learn from the bad.” ― Natasha Potter
60. “In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.” ― Fred Rogers
61. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” ― Steve Maraboli
62. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray
63. “If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.” ― Shantideva
64. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” ― Roy T. Bennett
65. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” ― Steve Maraboli
66. “If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
67. “There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”  ― Terry Pratchett
68. “I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.” ― Gayle Forman
69. “Even on my weakest days. I get a little bit stronger” ― Sara Evans
70. “You’re worried, but you also aim for perfection. You’re stressed, but you also never slow down.” ― Maxime Lagacé
71. “Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.” ― Valery Satterwhite
72. “Life was easier when you stopped caring, when you stopped expecting things to get better.” ― Cora Carmack
73. “Live a good life. More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” ― Roy Bennett
74. The only difference between good day and bad day is your attitude. The choice is yours.” ― Dennis Brown
75. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ― A.A. Milne
76. “You have earned breaks without having to earn them to begin with.” ― Jan Lenarz
77. “When we are confronted with stressful and difficult situations, focusing more on aspects that we can control—or at least influence—can alter our emotional response to the situation.” ― Noel Brick
78. “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.” ― Anonymous
79. “Worry is worthless. It can’t change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.” ― Darrin Patrick
80. 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
81. “Relaxing is about taking a few minutes out of your day to wind down and take a breather. Resting is about stopping for a significant period of time during the day, typically the evening to escape work and stress, and to completely unwind. Sleep speaks for itself.” ― Ben Bergeron
82. “Many bad days were preceded by a bad night’s sleep.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
83. When you’re having a bad day at work, a lot of times it’s your head. When you’re having good days, a lot of times it’s the absence of the mind.” ― Curt Schilling
84. Calm is not merely the absence of stress, but the powerful presence of peace.” ― Gina Simmons Schneider
85. “Nothing happens by overthinking; then why stress? Is it too hard to sit down and relax?” ― Sukant Ratnakar
86. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ― Robert H. Schuller
87. “Good and bad times are like black and white color, incomplete without each other.” ― Vikrmn, You By You
88. “Find a way to laugh about it and the sting will miraculously diffuse; joke about it and the pain will be no more. Just learn to take it easy and have life.” ― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
89. “Laughing at yourself, or situations, is one of the most powerful ways to remove stress from the Chimp.” ― Steve Peters
90. “You have earned breaks without having to earn them to begin with.” ― Jan Lenarz
91. The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.” ― Stephen Richards
92. “Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.” ― Jonathan Anthony Burkett
93. “Stress is a part of life and getting rid of stress is an art of life.” ― Anuj Jasani
94. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” ― Joseph Kennedy
95. “People have good and bad days.” ― Anna Chlumsky
96. “You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!” ― Aly Raisman
97. “A bad day can tell you more about yourself than a good day.” ― Andy Ogle
98. “Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day and that every day ends.” ― David Levithan
99. “Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.” ― Winston Churchill
100. “Breathe. It’s only a bad day not a bad life.” ― Ashley Purdy
101. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” ― Dolly Parton
102. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” ― Bernice Johnson Reagon
103. “You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.” ― Robin Williams

Conclusion

I hope that these bad day quotes have helped you to get through your days and provided inspiration for the days ahead.

Best of luck!