And in today’s post I want to share 120 of the most inspirational, love-filled and positive short kindness quotes.

To give you motivation to be kind in small and bigger ways in your everyday life. To help you create a more positive world around you both at work and in your personal life.

And simply to make your day to day life a more joyful and enjoyable place to be.

Short and Inspirational Kindness Quotes

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
– Dalai Lama

“Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.”
– J.M. Barrie

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
– Lao Tzu

“If you can be anything in this world, be kind.”
– Caroline Flack

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
– Mark Twain

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

“Kindness gives birth to kindness.”
– Sophocles

“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”
– William Arthur Ward

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Kindness is always fashionable.”
– Amelia E. Barr

“Beauty lives with kindness.”
– William Shakespeare

“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”
– Robert G. Ingersoll

“How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!”
– George Elliston

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
– Henry James

“The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.”
– Albert Einstein

“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
– Mother Teresa

“Kindness is wisdom.”
– Philip James Bailey

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
– E. Lockhart

Short Kindness Quotes for Work and Co-workers

“Kindness makes for much better teamwork.”
– John Wooden

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
– Blaise Pascal

“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”
– Arthur Ashe

“Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.'”
– Zig Ziglar

“Be kind to people on the way up – you’ll meet them again on your way down.”
– Jimmy Durante

“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.”
– Joseph B. Wirthlin

“The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“We can disagree and still be kind to each other.”
– Gary Vaynerchuk

“Candor is being direct in what you say. Kindness is being considerate in how you say it.”
– Adam Grant

“Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in life.”
– Mandy Hale

“Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.”
– Tommy Lee Jones

“Be nice to your co-workers. It feels nice and you’re more likely to get their help when you truly need it.”
– Unknown

“Being nice is a competitive advantage.”
– Anthony Pompliano

“It takes strength to be kind; it’s not a weakness.”
– Daniel Lubetzky

“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”
– Theodore Rubin

“Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.”
– Dennis Prager

“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”
– Dave Barry

“Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley

“If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.”
– Dustin Lance Black

Short Kindness Quotes for a Positive World and Life

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
– Dalai Lama

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

“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
– Margaret Mead

“Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.”
– Ron Hall

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
– Paulo Coelho

“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”
– Harold Kushner

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
– Desmond Tutu

“How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.”
– Morgan Freeman

“Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace, and care properly for this planet we all share.”
– Bo Lozoff

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
– Anne Frank

“As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.”
– Caroline Kennedy

“Happiness is the new rich. Inner peace is the new success. Health is the new wealth. Kindness is the new cool.”
– Syed Balkhi

“Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place.”
– Jasmine Guinness

“The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness.”
– Maya Angelou

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

“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda

“Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own.”
– Adam Lindsay Gordon

“Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.”
– Amit Ray

Short Kindness Quotes for Kids

“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien

“It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.”
– John Templeton

“Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another’s unhappiness.”
– Aesop

“Never be so kind, you forget to be clever. Never be so clever, you forget to be kind.”
– Taylor Swift

“When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire.”
– Whoopi Goldberg

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”
– Jesse Jackson

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up.”
– Booker T. Washington

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
– Plato

“For it is in giving that we receive.”
– Francis of Assisi

“Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.”
– Ashleigh Brilliant

“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The simple act of caring is heroic.”
– Edward Albert

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
– R.J. Palacio

“You’ve got to be kind.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“Choose being kind over being right and you’ll be right every time.”
– Richard Carlson

“Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.”
– Stacy London

Short Quotes on Compassion and Acts of Kindness

“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.”
– Kent M. Keith

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
– Brad Meltzer

“Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.”
– Jackie Chan

“There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
– Princess Diana

“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
– William Wordsworth

“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”
– Scott Adams

“A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.”
– William John Bennett

“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
– Steve Maraboli

“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”
– Frank A. Clark

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now.”
– William Penn

“I’m a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.”
– Liam Neeson

“Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.”
– Bob Kerrey

“Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves.”
– Pema Chodron

“Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.”
– Amy Leigh Mercree

“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world.”
– Sharon Salzberg

“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
– Mother Teresa

Short Kindness Quotes on Love and Respect

“What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. Love. We all lean towards love.”
– Richard Gere

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.”
– Rumi

“People shouldn’t have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
– Maggie Stiefvater

“Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”
– Barbara De Angelis

“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
– St. Basil

“You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.”
– Dolly Parton

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
– George Sand

“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
– Joseph Joubert

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
– David Mitchell

“Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.”
– Sarah Fielding

“I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can’t do without them.”
– Brigitte Bardot

“Extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever.”
– Thomas More

“The love, kindnesses, and value we have given authentically to others will be our remaining treasures at the end of life.”
– Steve Brunkhorst

Want more uplifting motivation? Then have a look at these quotes about change, the positive quotes about hope here and also this one with plenty of quotes about time that will make you think.

If you’re a daughter thinking about how to show your mom your love and appreciation on Mother’s Day then today’s post will help you out.

In it you’ll find 70 of the most powerful, heartfelt and funny Mother’s Day quotes from daughters from all over the world.

Use one of a few of your favorites on social media like Instagram, in a lovely card or in real life to celebrate your mom and to make her day an extra special one this year.

Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter to Show Love and Gratitude

“My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
– Jodi Picoult

“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”
– Princess Diana

“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.”
– Lisa Leslie

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”
– Maya Angelou

“I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”
– Mindy Kaling

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
– Agatha Christie

“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”
– Jill Churchill

“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.”
– Maggie Gallagher

“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”
– Pearl S. Buck

“My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.”
– Emma Stone

“My mother always said I was beautiful, and I finally believed her at some point.”
– Lupita Nyong’o

“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.”
– Margaret Culkin Banning

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart.”
– Kristin Hannah

“I can only hope to be 10% of the mom mine was to me.”
– Charlize Theron

“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.”
– Susan Gale

“Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children’s happiness.”
– Shannon Alder

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”
– George Eliot

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
– Gail Tsukiyama

Inspirational Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter to Honor Your Mom

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
– Elizabeth Stone

“Just because you become a mother, it doesn’t mean you lose who you are.”
– Beyoncé

“Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.”
– Jessalyn Gilsig

“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.”
– Linda Wooten

“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.”
– Lady Gaga

“Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.”
– Gilda Radner

“That’s the wonderful thing about mothers: You can because you must, and you just do.”
– Kate Winslet

“My mother sacrificed her dreams so I could dream.”
– Rupi Kaur

“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
– Sophia Loren

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
– Barbara Kingsolver

“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.”
– Erin Kelly

“There will be many times you will feel like you have failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are supermom.”
– Stephanie Precourt

“Mothers have the ability to liberate by love or, by neglect, to imprison. They’re our first teachers; they are our first loves.”
– Maya Angelou

“That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you.’ She says, ‘Toughen up, this is the reality we are living in.'”
– Lauryn Hill

“Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings – is the biggest job anyone can embark on.”
– Maria Shriver

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“A warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.”
– Kristin Hannah

Short Happy Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter

“A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.”
– Debasish Mridha

“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.”
– Sara Josepha Hale

“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.”
– Elaine Heffner

“The world needs our mothers.”
– Liya Kebede

“Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.”
– Olivia Wilde

“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.”
– Mabel Hale

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.”
– Princess Diana

“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.”
– Amy Tan

“Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald

“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.”
– St. Therese of Lisieux

“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.”
– Jane Sellman

“She taught me that fear is not an option.”
– Diane Von Furstenberg

“I tell my kids, ‘I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'”
– Michelle Obama

“My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.”
– R.J. Palacio

Funny Happy Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter

“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”
– Betty White

“Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.”
– Nia Vardalos

“I used to give my friends who have kids advice all the time, and they would look at me like I had three heads. And then, when I had two, I literally apologized to all my friends.”
– Jennifer Lopez

“Twelve years later the memories of those nights, of that sleep deprivation, still make me rock back and forth a little bit. You want to torture someone? Hand them an adorable baby they love who doesn’t sleep.”
– Shonda Rhimes

“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
– Nora Ephron

“I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them.”
– Reese Witherspoon

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.”
– Marguerite Duras

“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”
– Tina Fey

“Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future.”
– Amy Poehler

“The majority of my diet is made up of foods that my kids didn’t finish.”
– Carrie Underwood

“No one told me I would be coming home in diapers, too.”
– Chrissy Teigen

“Motherhood is basically finding activities for children in three-hour pockets of time for the rest of your life.”
– Mindy Kaling

“You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times.”
– Jennifer Garner

“Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.”
– Julie Bowen

“If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, ‘Keep away from children.'”
– Susan Savannah

“Why don’t kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us?”
– Alyson Hannigan

Want more positive and meaningful quotes for Mother’s Day? Then check out the best Mother’s Day quotes and wishes here, the funny Mothers’s day quotes and sayings in this post and also this one with lots of short but powerful Mother’s Day quotes.

It’s Mother’s Day (or it will be soon, depending on when you read this).

It’s a day when we pause for a bit and show the moms in our lives love and gratitude for all they do.

And to help you with that I’d like to share 110 of the best and most powerful Happy Mother’s Day quotes and wishes.

I hope you’ll find something heartwarming, funny or meaningful here to share in real life, in a card or a text or on social media like Facebook or Instagram to make this day an extra love-filled and memorable day for your mom.

The Best Happy Mother’s Day Quotes to Show Love

“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.”
– Maggie Gallagher

“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”
– Princess Diana

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
– Agatha Christie

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
– Gail Tsukiyama

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
– Maya Angelou

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
– Robert Browning

“A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.”
– Debasish Mridha

“We are born of love; love is our mother.”
– Rumi

“All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
– William Makepeace Thackeray

“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.”
– Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”
– Erich Fromm

“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.”
– St. Therese of Lisieux

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
– Rudyard Kipling

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
– Cardinal Mermillod

“There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.”
– Washington Irving

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.”
– Victor Hugo

“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”
– Charley Benetto

“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”
– Karl Lagerfeld

“I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.”
– Conor Oberst

“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.”
– Leroy Brownlow

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.”
– James Joyce

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
– Honore de Balzac

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
– Hermann Hesse

“A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world.”
– Jamie McGuire

The Best Short Mother’s Day Quotes and Wishes

“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.”
– Amy Tan

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“All I am I owe to my mother.”
– George Washington

“There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.”
– Saleem Sharma

“My mother is a walking miracle.”
– Leonardo DiCaprio

“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.”
– Lance Conrad

“The world needs our mothers.”
– Liya Kebede

“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
– Jewish Proverb

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”
– George Eliot

“A mother’s love liberates.”
– Maya Angelou

“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.”
– Sara Josepha Hale

“Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.”
– Sophocles

“Men are what their mothers made them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I really learned it all from mothers.”
– Benjamin Spock

“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.”
– Jodi Picoult

“Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.”
– Bern Williams

“Mothers are the necessity of invention.”
– Bill Watterson

“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.”
– Ricki Lake

“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.”
– Mabel Hale

The Best Funny Mother’s Day Quotes for Moms

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
– Franklin P. Adams

“A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.”
– Dave Barry

“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.”
– Dorothy (from the TV-show The Golden Girls)

“Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.”
– Ray Romano

“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”
– Tina Fey

“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
– Nora Ephron

“The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”
– Lane Olinghouse

“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.”
– Jane Sellman

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
– Milton Berle

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
– Phyllis Diller

“My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.”
– Buddy Hackett

“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.”
– Sam Levenson

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
– Robert Frost

“Don’t forget Mother’s Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad’s Third Wife Day.”
– Jay Leno

“A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”
– Peter De Vries

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, ‘Keep away from children.'”
– Susan Savannah

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
– Calvin Trillin

“A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”
– William Feather

“Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying ‘Da-da’ first.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.”
– Julie Bowen

Cute and Deep Mother’s Day Quotes

“There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.”
– Dave Willis

“For when a child is born, the mother also is born again.”
– Gilbert Parker

“My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.”
– R.J. Palacio

“Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”
– T. Dewitt Talmage

“To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.”
– Arlene Benedict

“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”
– Stevie Wonder

“But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.”
– Mitch Albom

“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.”
– Susan Gale

“As is the mother, so is her daughter.”
– Ezekiel 16:44

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”
– Maya Angelou

“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
– Honore de Balzac

“There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.”
– Archibald Thompson

“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.”
– Margaret Culkin Banning

“A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.”
– Amit Kalantri

“Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald

“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.”
– Jessica Lange

“Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.”
– Gilda Radner

“A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”
– Mark Twain

“Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I’ve always looked up to.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“My mother was the one constant in my life.”
– Barack Obama

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott

The Best Happy Mother’s Day Quotes from a Daughter

“My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
– Jodi Picoult

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“My mom is definitely my rock.”
– Alicia Keys

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart.”
– Kristin Hannah

“My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.”
– Emma Stone

“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.”
– Lisa Leslie

“I can only hope to be 10% of the mom mine was to me.”
– Charlize Theron

“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.”
– Lady Gaga

“She always said I was beautiful, and I finally believed her at some point.”
– Lupita Nyong’o

“My mother sacrificed her dreams so I could dream.”
– Rupi Kaur

“I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”
– Mindy Kaling

“Great women raise great women who raise great women.”
– Jennifer Fujita

“When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother.”
– Anna Quindlen

“My mother always used to say, the older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.”
– Betty White

“She taught me that fear is not an option.”
– Diane Von Furstenberg

“So much of who I am is because of who you are.”
– Mary Miro

Want more heartfelt inspiration for Mother’s Day? Then have a look at these short Mother’s Day quotes, the uplifting and inspirational Mother’s Day quotes and sayings here and also this one with plenty of positive and funny Mother’s Day quotes.

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness.

When you think about it then you may often think of the future in some way.

The dream vacation coming up, the promotion you are working towards, the baby that is on the way or the sixth date with someone new in your life.

But happiness can also be found in the small things of a regular day.

So today look for it there. Take just a few minutes and apply one of the tips below and see how it brightens your day.

1. One minute of appreciation.

Take a minute, sit down and just reflect on what you appreciate and love about your partner.

Or a friend or family member. Or yourself.

This will fill you with gratitude and redirect your focus to the positive side of things.

2. Express your appreciation.

Tell the partner, family member or friend what you came up with.

It will brighten his or her day.

And as his or her face lights up with a big smile you’ll feel happier too because emotions are contagious.

3. Take 5 minutes to see how you can help someone out.

Offer some practical help, some good advice, look something up for him or her, be encouraging and supportive or just lend a listening ear.

4. Slow down for 3 minutes.

Walk and move slower for just these few minutes. Let your thoughts slow down.

Use the 3 minutes to enjoy what is happening all around you.

Truly take it in with all your senses.

There is much simple wonder we miss each day because we are so preoccupied with our thoughts and plans for the future.

After those 3 minutes are up, continue at the slower pace if you like.

5. Be the smile you want to see in your world.

Smile more towards the people you meet and you’ll get more smiles back.

You’ll feel better. They will too.

And they will probably smile more towards the other people they meet that day.

So don’t wait for other people to smile more, be the smile you want to see in your world instead.

6. Make someone else happy.

Don’t stop at just smiles.

• Give someone a big hug.
• Give him or her a small or a bigger gift of some kind.
• Cook their favorite food if they have had a bad day.

7. Start your day with setting a low bar for happiness.

As you open your eyes and wake up to a new day tell yourself:

“Today I will have a low bar for happiness”.

I have been using this one for quite some time now and it makes the regular day happier. I take fewer things for granted – like my food, the weather, the small gestures in my world and the small moments – and often pause to appreciate them more.

And it does not make me passive action-wise.

Instead it makes me feel more inspired, motivated and inner resistance decreases.

And so I get more of importance done.

8. Be the day you want to see.

Don’t wait for someone else to create the day you want to have.

Instead, get the ball rolling yourself.

Take action and take the first small step or steps forward:

• Set up a movie night when the rain is pouring down.
• Take a walk or a run in the early morning to get your energy levels for the day and week up.

9. Say yes to something new.

Something you haven’t eaten before. A new song or album. A new author or movie. A new sport. A new way to work or through your town.

By actively going outside of what is normal for you or your comfort zone you’ll discover new, wonderful things in life quite often.

This will bring happiness into your life and if you develop this habit then in my experience it will be easier to move outside of your comfort zone in bigger ways too.

10. Say no to a should.

The shoulds in life can really drag that happiness and energy down and make everything feel like heavy work.

But do you have to do all of those shoulds on your to-do list?

Or are you maybe stuck in a rut and are doing some of those things just out of old habit?

Ask yourself one of my favorite questions:

Will this matter in 5 years? Or even 5 weeks?

By zooming out like this you make it easier to see the true value of doing something.

To see it for what it really is.

And so your questioning makes it easier to simply relax and to say no to doing something because you realize that it isn’t that important anyway.

11. Take a 2 minute laugh-break.

Few things will so simply bring happiness and relieve stress as laughing. So:

• Revisit one or two of those small video clips that always makes you laugh or smile.
• Head over to your favorite funny comic online or in your bookshelf.
• Listen a bit to a podcast or a stand-up show that you know you find funny.

12. Do what you deep down think is the right thing.

Instead of letting quick and judgmental words come of your mouth be understanding.

Instead of snacking on some candy eat a fruit or drink a glass of water.

When an impulse inside of you wants you do something that you know deep down isn’t right for you then pause.

Be still for a few moments. The impulse will pass.

And you can more easily choose to take the action you think is right in this situation.

Then appreciate that you did the right thing, give yourself a pat on the back and see how good it all feels. Continue to do this and you’ll help yourself to build a stronger self-esteem.

13. Stand still for a minute, close your eyes and just enjoy the sun.

I did it today and it was wonderful.

This one may however work best if you have had a rainy autumn and a winter filled with grey skies for the last few months.

With warmth, sunshine, flowers blooming and allergies beginning.

And to help you to have a happy end to spring I’d like to share 87 of the most witty, positive and funny May quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here you can use for your letter board or Instagram, that’ll make you and your loved ones laugh and that’ll help you to have a fun and joyful month before we head into summer.

Funny May Quotes and Sayings for a Happy End to Spring

“It’s May, the lusty month of May, that darling month when everyone throws self-control away.”
– Alan Jay Lerner

“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course, nor June.”
– Karen Joy Fowler

“May can be a month of sneezing, itchy eyes, and runny noses.”
– Ellen Jackson

“May is a pious fraud of the almanac, a ghastly parody of real spring.”
– James Russell Lowell

“Horticulturally, the month of May is opening night, homecoming, and graduation day all rolled into one.”
– Tam Mossman

“The last days of May are among the longest of the year.”
– Alice Munro

“Make hay in May, for you may never know what June is coming with, and you may never know what July will present! When you see May, make hay!”
– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.”
– Fennel Hudson

“The flowers that should bloom in the month of May, every one of them came on an April day! And they looked for April showers in vain, but all through May it did nothing but rain!”
– Carolyn Wells

“Oh, it was a merry, gladsome day when the April Fool met the Queen of May. She had roguish eyes and golden hair, and they were a mischief-making pair.”
– Carolyn Wells

“Queer things happen in the garden in May. Little faces forgotten appear, and plants thought to be dead suddenly wave a green hand to confound you.”
– W. E. Johns

“May is often the month where your winter body meets your summer wardrobe again, and it’s usually an awkward reunion.”
– Sandra Shea

“In the suburbs of Delaware, spring meant not young love and damp flowers but an ugly divorce from winter and a second marriage to buxom summer.”
– Andrew Sean Greer

“The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.”
– Edwin Way Teale

“I thought that spring must last forevermore. For I was young and loved, and it was May.”
– Vera Brittain

“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.”
– Al Bernstein

Short and Funny May Quotes

“May is proof that nature has a sense of humor – you get perfect weather on workdays and then rain every single weekend.”
– Bob Simmons

“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'”
– Robin Williams

“May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.”
– Marty Rubin

“Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.”
– Doug Larson

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin

“May is that magical time of year when you can get a sunburn and a cold on the same day.”
– Unknown

“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.”
– Lilly Pulitzer

“A little Madness in the Spring is wholesome even for the King.”
– Emily Dickinson

“My favorite weather is bird chirping weather.”
– Terri Guillemets

“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
– Susan J. Bissonette

“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise.”
– Wallace Stevens

“You gotta bloom where you’re planted.”
– Dolly Parton

“May is green and pink and red.”
– Richard L. Ratliff

“Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
– Charles Dickens

“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.”
– Ellis Peters

“The month of May is the gateway to summer, vacation and checking out from work.”
– Unknown

Hilarious May Quotes That Will Make You Laugh

“Nothing says May like mowing the lawn and getting all sweaty as a sweet reminder how much out of shape you you’ve gotten.”
– Sandra Shea

“Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.”
– Louise Erickson

“May is when you realize that your New Year’s resolution to ‘get in shape’ isn’t really working out the way you’ve planned.”
– Sarah Kelly

“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
– Mark Twain

“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.”
– Henry Van Dyke

“In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”
– Mark Twain

“The early bird gets the worm, but the late bird doesn’t even get the late worm.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?”
– Zig Ziglar

“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do: I stare out the window and wait for spring.”
– Rogers Hornsby

“Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.”
– W. Earl Hall

“Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything’s dying.”
– George Carlin

“Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head.”
– Emma Racine deFleur

Funny May Quotes for Your Letter Board and Instagram

“The only thing blossoming faster than the flowers in May are my allergies.”
– Jim Harper

“Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.”
– Gustav Mahler

“Hello, May! Surprise me.”
– Unknown

“Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded.”
– Marianne van Hirtum

“You can have all the rest of the year if you will give me April and May.”
– Spanish Proverb

“May, the month of maybes.”
– Unknown

“Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.”
– Unknown

“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.”
– E. E. Cummings

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
– Michael Altshuler

“Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.”
– Virgil A. Kraft

“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”
– Virginia Woolf

“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
– Pablo Neruda

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.”
– Anne Bradstreet

“The deep roots never doubt spring will come.”
– Marty Rubin

Short and Funny Mother’s Day Quotes

“I can’t believe how much like my mother I turned out. I feel sorry for my kids.”
– Melanie White

“Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.”
– Julie Bowen

“Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.”
– Ray Romano

“A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“You know your life has changed when going to the grocery store by yourself is a vacation.”
– Unknown

“Raising a kid is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.”
– Ed Asner

“I’ve been married 14 years and I have three kids. Obviously I breed well in captivity.”
– Roseanne Barr

“Silence is golden. Unless you have kids. Then silence is just suspicious.”
– Unknown

“Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too.”
– Lionel Kauffman

“Behind every great child is a mom who’s pretty sure she’s screwing it all up.”
– Unknown

“My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.”
– Tim Allen

“Raising kids is like a walk in the park. Jurassic Park.”
– Unknown

“I don’t want to sleep like a baby. I want to sleep like my husband.”
– Unknown

“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.”
– Jane Sellman

Funny Mothers Days Quotes That Will Make Your Mom Smile

“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
– Nora Ephron

“A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”
– Tenneva Jordan

“If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, ‘Keep away from children.'”
– Susan Savannah

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
– Mark Twain

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
– Milton Berle

“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”
– William Feather

“Motherhood is basically finding activities for children in three-hour pockets of time for the rest of your life.”
– Mindy Kaling

“I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don’t even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.”
– Rita Rudner

“Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.”
– Tina Fey

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
– Calvin Trillin

“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.”
– Erma Bombeck

“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”
– Dorothy Parker

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
– Phyllis Diller

“It’s not easy being a mom. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”
– Betty White

“My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.”
– Buddy Hackett

“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.”
– Sam Levenson

“The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”
– Lane Olinghouse

Want more laughs and positive energy for the season? Then have a look at these funny spring quotes, the funny graduation quotes here and also this one with inspirational quotes about hope.

Sometimes life is easy and feels positive and light.

At other times it can get tough and feel a lot heavier.

If you’re in such a period right now then today’s post is for you.

In it I want to share 130 of the most motivational, positive and inspirational quotes about hope.

To give you a jolt of energy and new motivation. To comfort you and give you the courage to take action despite rattling setbacks.

And to remind you that it’s darkest before the dawn and that things will work out if you keep on moving forward (even if that’s one small step at a time).

Motivational Quotes About Hope and Strength

“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”
– Jonas Salk

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
– Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
– Saint Augustine

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
– Harriet Tubman

“In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.”
– Fritz Knapp

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
– Dale Carnegie

“When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.”
– Pope John XXIII

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– William Faulkner

“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.”
– Dalai Lama

“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”
– Maya Angelou

“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.”
– Samuel Smiles

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward.”
– Nelson Mandela

“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once, but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.”
– Michelle Obama

“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller

“When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you’ll finally see the truth – that hero lies in you.”
– Mariah Carey

“I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.”
– Werner von Braun

“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.”
– Dorothy Thompson

Quotes About Hope to Comfort You During Hard Times

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
– Desmond Tutu

“The darkest hours are just before dawn.”
– English Proverb

“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen

“Hope itself is like a star – not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”
– Charles Spurgeon

“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
– Anne Frank

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
– José N. Harris

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
– George Eliot

“Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.”
– E.B. White

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”
– Bernard Williams

“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
– Lemony Snicket

“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
– Stephenie Meyer

“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”
– Pittacus Lore

“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
– Anne Frank

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
– Baruch Spinoza

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

Short and Powerful Quotes About Hope

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”
– Christopher Reeve

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“Hope is passion for what is possible.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“Hope is a waking dream.”
– Aristotle

“I dwell in possibility.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Hope costs nothing.”
– Colette

“While there’s life, there’s hope.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Hope is an embrace of the unknown.”
– Rebecca Solnit

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.”
– Martin Luther

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast.”
– Alexander Pope

“To live without hope is to cease to live.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”
– George Washington Carver

“Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.”
– George Weinberg

“Dark times are not hopeless times.”
– David Goggins

“We need hope, or else we cannot endure.”
– Sarah J. Maas

“I always entertain great hopes.”
– Robert Frost

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.”
– Lupita Nyong’o

“Hope is the last thing ever lost.”
– Italian Proverb

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
– Nelson Mandela

Quotes on Hope to Give You a Jolt of Energy

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain

“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
– Mae Jemison

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
– Amy Tan

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
– Barack Obama

“The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.”
– Amanda Gorman

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis

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

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
– David Nicholls

“Fear never builds the future, but hope does.”
– Joe Biden

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
– Helen Keller

“Never give up. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.”
– Catherine Pulsifer

“Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.”
– William Sloane Coffin

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
– Maxine Hong Kingston

“I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.”
– Will Smith

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France

“When you stop hoping you start settling.”
– Valorie Burton

“The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.”
– Indira Gandhi

“Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.”
– Barack Obama

“It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
– John Guare

“A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.”
– Jan Dargatz

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David Thoreau

Beautiful and Inspirational Quotes and Sayings About Hope

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”
– O. S. Marden

“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
– Lu Xun

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
– Barbara Kingsolver

“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
– Shel Silverstein

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.”
– Emily Dickinson

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
– Robert Fulghum

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
– Laini Taylor

“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”
– Samuel Smiles

“You are full of unshaped dreams… You are laden with beginnings… There is hope in you…”
– Lola Ridge

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
– Anne Frank

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.”
– Alexandre Dumas

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier.'”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
– Gustave Flaubert

“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.”
– Victor Hugo

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
– Pablo Neruda

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight.”
– C. JoyBell C.

“We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope.”
– Manel Loureiro

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.”
– Samuel Johnson

“What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.”
– Emil Brunner

“However long the night, the dawn will break.”
– African Proverb

Positive Quotes on Hope for Perseverance and Resilience

“You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.”
– Maya Angelou

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”
– Robert H. Schuller

“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

“Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
– Stephen King

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

“Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.”
– Barbara Kingsolver

“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

“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But, don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last.”
– Charles Dickens

“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”
– John Green

“A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope.”
– Shannon K. Butcher

“Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn’t give up.”
– Matt Haig

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
– Bill Keane

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
– Aristotle

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
– Tom Bodett

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”
– J.M. Barrie

“For every dark night there’s a brighter day.”
– Tupac Shakur

“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.”
– John Wayne

“Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.”
– Thomas Fuller

“There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.”
– C.S. Lewis

Want more inspiration and uplifting motivation? Then have a look at these quotes about change, the motivational quotes for success here and also at this one with lots of positive quotes for life.

Time.

The thing we often take for granted but that also sometimes feels like it’s slipping away, especially as we grow older. It’s that one thing that we can’t really ever get back.

So spending it wisely can make a huge difference. In stress, in success and in satisfaction in life.

To help you with that I’d like to share 101 of the most motivational and powerful quotes about time and on living life well.

Timeless thoughts I hope will give you some helpful ideas on how to use your own time here and also about common pitfalls to avoid for a happier life.

Motivational Quotes About Time

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”
– Charles Buxton

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.”
– Robin Sharma

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
– Sam Levenson

“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”
– Tony Robbins

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

“Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.”
– Tim Ferriss

“The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.”
– Kevin Ngo

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
– Pablo Picasso

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

“People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem.”
– Zig Ziglar

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
– Michael Altshuler

“Make time, not excuses.”
– Grant Cardone

“Now is the time to fix the next 10 years.”
– Jim Rohn

“The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.”
– Nolan Bushnell

“Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.”
– Napoleon Hill

“We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Do not waste time on things you cannot change or influence.”
– Robert Greene

Short and Powerful Quotes About Time

“While we wait for life, life passes.”
– Seneca

“Time is an illusion.”
– Albert Einstein

“Be here now.”
– Ram Dass

“Lost time is never found again.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Time moves slowly but passes quickly.”
– Alice Walker

“Time is money.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Time brings all things to pass.”
– Aeschylus

“Guard your time. It’s all you have.”
– Naval Ravikant

“How did it get so late so soon?”
– Dr. Seuss

“Every second is of infinite value.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Time is the fire in which we burn.”
– Gene Roddenberry

“Space I can recover. Time, never.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“Who knows where the time goes?”
– Nina Simone

“So many books, so little time.”
– Frank Zappa

“You may delay, but time will not.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Confine yourself to the present.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“We feast on time as time feasts on us.”
– Maria Popova

“Time is long but life is short.”
– Stevie Wonder

“Light tomorrow with today!”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
– William Faulkner

Quotes About Time for Living Your Life Well

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
– Annie Dillard

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
– Seneca

“Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.”
– John Wooden

“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
– Robert Brault

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Marthe Troly-Curtin

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
– Jack Kornfield

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.”
– Art Buchwald

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
– Auguste Rodin

“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
– Bruce Lee

“You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”
– Warren Buffett

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
– Coco Chanel

“Life, if well lived, is long enough.”
– Seneca

“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
– Paulo Coelho

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
– Coco Chanel

“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
– Andy Warhol

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”
– Abbie Hoffman

Sayings on Time to Inspire Gratitude for Life’s Most Precious Resource

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.”
– Rose Kennedy

“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
– William Penn

“Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.”
– Rick Warren

“Time is a gift that most of us take for granted.”
– Cheryl Richardson

“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.”
– Thomas A. Edison

“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
– Steve Jobs

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
– Carl Sandburg

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”
– Harvey Mackay

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
– Chinese Proverb

“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
– Jim Rohn

“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.”
– Samuel Smiles

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
– Theophrastus

“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
– Ally Condie

“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.”
– Randy Pausch

“Time – the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.”
– Gary Vaynerchuk

“There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.”
– Jim Valvano

“Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world.”
– Robin Sharma

“Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”
– Dale Carnegie

Deep and Inspirational Quotes About Time

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”
– Max Frisch

“Forever is composed of nows.”
– Emily Dickinson

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The years teach much which the days never know.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.'”
– Lao Tzu

“Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”
– Stephen R. Covey

“Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Time is the wisest counselor of all.”
– Pericles

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
– Heraclitus

“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
– Marcel Proust

“Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.”
– Eckhart Tolle

“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.”
– Margaret Peters

Want more motivation for creating the life you deep down want to live? Then check out these quotes about change, the motivational daily quotes for positive energy here and also this one with lots and lots of short happy quotes.