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100 Short Good Day Quotes and Messages for a Happy and Positive Aesthetic for Your Day

Looking for the best good day quotes to start off your day on a high note? We’ve got you covered! Here’s a collection which includes today is a good day quotes that are happy, positive or motivational. We included some have a good day wishes and a better day thoughts and wishes.

Make your days better with these quotes and messages.

Our Favorite Short Good Day Quotes

“On a good day everybody can beat everybody.” ― Chris Hughton

“Not every day is a good day for me.” ― Megan Thee Stallion

“I wake up every day and I think, ‘I’m breathing! It’s a good day’.” ― Eve Ensler

“If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.” ― Cavett Robert

“Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun’s shining or not.” ― Marty Robbins

“Every day is a good day. There is something to learn, care and celebrate.” ― Amit Ray

People on beach with good day quotes by Ray

“A good day is when no one shows up, and you don’t have to go anywhere.” ― Burt Shavitz

“On a good day I write, all day.” ― Nick Flynn

“If I don’t laugh at least 20 times a day – it hasn’t been a good day.” ― Jordin Sparks

“I’ve always measured a good day as one where I can read, write, and run.” ― Maggie Rogers

“I can’t believe, today was a good day.” ― Ice Cube

“It was a good day to die, but nobody did.” — Stephen Graham Jones

“It was a good day to die. I was in love. The house was clean.” — Dawn Downey

“At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.” ― Simone Biles

“If you put a smile on someone’s face, it was a good day.” — Harvey Stelman

Ocean from cave wtih today was a good day quotes by Stelman

“On a good day, when you have a clear plan, you are able to execute whatever you wanted.” ― Jasprit Bumrah

“Lose an hour in the morning and you will spend all day looking for it.” — Richard Whately

“Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees and then kindness.” — Nanea Hoffman

“A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.” — Glennon Melton

“Everyone should experience a sunrise at least once a day.” — Phil Dunphy

“When you’re wide awake, say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.” — Paul McCartney

“When reality and dreams collide, typically it’s just your alarm clock going off.” — Crystal Woods

Sunset over lake with funny quotes about a good day by Woods

“I love the early hours of the day. It’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.” — James Lileks

“A bad day for our ego is a great day for our soul.” ― Jillian Michaels

“I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days or great days.” ― Lance Armstrong

“It’s a great day to be alive. I know the sun’s still shining when I close my eyes.” ― Travis Tritt

“When you’re wide awake, say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.” ― Paul McCartney

“We don’t “have” a great day, we “make it” a great day!” ― Frosty Westering

Trees and sunny skies with short great day quotes by Westering

“A lot of good days… makes a great life! Each day is important. Plan and execute it meticulously.” ― Manoj Arora

“It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” ― Henry James

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” ― Muhammad Ali

“Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.” ― Dr. Seuss

“Even the worst days have an ending, and the best days have a beginning.” ― Jennifer Coletta

“Take each good day and relish each moment. Take each bad day and work to make it good.” ― Lisa Dado

“I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.” ― Louise Hay

If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Roses are Red Violets are Blue Quotes, New Beginnings Quotes, Start Fresh Quotes, New Beginnings Captions and Moving On Quotes.

Have a Good Day Messages

“Wishing you a good day ahead, may you achieve whatever you have planned for today.”

“Planning the day makes it easier to follow, here’s to another good day!”

“Wishing you wealth and good health, have a good day.”

“It’s about ideas put into motion and hard work put into execution, have a good day!”

“It’s about the positive energy one gets with a new day and a ray of hope. Have a good day.”

“Reminder: It’s you and you are unique. Have a good day!”

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“Dreams are what keeps us awake and they always step ahead with each coming day, have a good day and fulfill your dreams!”

“Today is always a new day to color life, get up and enjoy this day, live it to the fullest. Have a good day!”

“Never be upset about bad days, they teach us new lessons. Good days help us make beautiful memories to look back at in the future. Have a good day.”

“It is the same sun which shines bright on us everyday. All days are the same but it is our attitude which makes it good or bad for us. May you have a good day with a positive attitude.”

“Better days are coming.”

“Bad days build better days.”

“Each new day is better than the last.”

“Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.”

“Don’t you worry a bit, better days are coming.”

“Take a deep breath, its just a bad day. Not a bad life.”

“Better days are going to come soon, you just have to wait.”

“Better days are coming. You have been through a lot. Now it’s time for you to shine.”

Sunset over mountains with a better day thoughts and wishes

“It’s not always easy but that’s life. Be strong. Know that there are better days ahead.”

“You have better days ahead of you than you have behind you.”

“May the bridges I burn today light the way for a better tomorrow.”

“Every day, do something that will inch you close to a better tomorrow.”

“If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”

“Never give up believing that there is hope for better days to come. Bad things happen for a reason and sometimes it is to bring us to those better days.”

“When it rains, it pours. But soon, the sun shines again. Be confident. Better days are on their way.”

Today is a Good Day Quotes

“Some people go to bed at night thinking, ‘That was a good day.’ I am one of those who worries and asks, ‘How did I screw up today?’” — Tom Hanks

“I never get tired of ‘It Was A Good Day’ references or jokes or anything like that. It’s just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.” ― Ice Cube

“It was a good day for a parade, sunny and unseasonably warm, the sky a Sunday school cartoon of heaven.” — Tom Perrotta

“No matter how much funding I get, I’m always thinking, This is temporary. This is fragile. It could all end tomorrow, and how am I going to make today worth it? If this is my last day in the lab, what can I do so that I can walk out of here saying, ‘That was a good day?’” ― Hope Jahren

“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.” ― Gillian Anderson

“Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, ‘It’s going to be a good day!’.” ―  Lindsay Lohan

“Every day should be a good day. People fool themselves that they’ll be here forever.” ― Stephen A. Schwarzman

“On a good day I think I’m handsome, on an average day I’m average. I’m a man’s man so I don’t necessarily know how cute we’re supposed to be.” ― CeeLo Green

“While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.” ― Jean Chatzky

“Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they’re thirsty. That’s prayer. They don’t live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.” ― Mary Oliver

“Every single day is a good day no matter how bright or dark it is because it always brings an opportunity to start a positive beginning in your life.” ― Edmond Mbiaka

“Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.” ― Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Let today be the day you give up who you’ve been for who you can become.” ― Hal Elrod

“From the moment I woke up, I could tell that it was going to be a good day.” ― Aly Johnson

Mountains lake and clouds with today is a good day quotes by Johnson

“Today I begin a new life for I am the master of my abilities and today is going to be a great and beautiful day!” ― Tyrese Gibson

“By knowing how to change what I believe about any day of my life, I have acquired a general belief that every day is a good day.” ― Frank Healy

“Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.” ― Germany Kent

“Today means boundless and inexhaustible eternity. Months and years and all periods of time are concepts of men, who gauge everything by number but the true name of eternity is today.” ― Philo of Alexandria

“Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.” ― Grenville Klesier

“Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!” ― Dita Von Teese

“Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, ‘It’s going to be a good day!’.” ― Lindsay Lohan

“You never think about what life’s going to be like five years down the road or 10 – you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don’t. You just hope this day will be a good day.” ― Jack Harbaugh

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” — Robert Frost

“Love is blind. Especially in the morning, because I can’t see a damn thing before having coffee.” — Aleksandra Ninkovic

“I’m sorry for people who don’t drink. They wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” ― Frank Sinatra

“Morning is an important time of day because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.” — Lemony Snicket

“Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don’t speak bird.” — Kurt Cobain

“Every single day I wake up and make up my mind that I am going to work really hard. Then my mind laughs at me and says ‘Good joke.’ Then we laugh for some more time and I go back to bed.” — Gehenna Toss

“It’s a good day to have a good day.” ― Hoda Kotb

“As long as you are winning it is a good day.” ― Per Mertesacker

“I wake up every day and I think, ‘I’m breathing! It’s a good day’.” ―Eve Ensler

“It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.” ― Barry Lyga

“Whenever I don’t have to wear makeup, it’s a good day.” ― Cameron Diaz

Beach and ocean with it's a good day quotes by Diaz

“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

“A good day is when no one shows up and you don’t have to go anywhere.” ― Burt Shavitz

“I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.” ― Bob Ross

“At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.” ― Anthony Hopkins

“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.” ― Annie Dillard

“I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I’m not feeling good – work on technique or something like that.” ― Katie Ledecky

“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

“Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.” ― Jurgen Klopp

“My goal is one individual gold. I know how hard it is: you have to have a good day; there can also be some problems with the weather.” ― Marit Bjorgen

“If we have a good day and we win, I’ll celebrate and enjoy it. If I have a bad day and I lose, I’ll be disappointed and then come back the next day and think about the next team.” ― Clayton Kershaw

“You have good days and bad days.” ― Usain Bolt

“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day.” ― Gillian Anderson

“You are going to have bad days and have good days.” ― Lou Ferrigno

“Find peace in the morning rush and you will have a good day.” ― Michael Dolan

Lake and dock with have a good day quotes by Dolan

“You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.” ― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.” ― Winona Ryder

“I love the phrase, ‘Somebody’s going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.’ I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope.” ― Josh Peck

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

“Even if I have a good day, I still am aware of other people that are going through really hard, tumultuous things. I don’t want to be the person who has a platform and neglects the things I see in my life and experiences.” ― Christian Scott

“Having the family around is always very important because they are supportive. If you have a good day, you can enjoy it together. And if you have a bad day, you always find something as a distraction with your children, because they are normally happy.” ― Rafael Benitez

“Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn’t wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you.” ― Margaret Cho

“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

“I have learned over the years that the nicest thing I can do is to just say to myself, “Good Morning Darling, I love you; we’re going to have a really great day today.” ― Louise Hay

“A broken wing simply means, you have to find another way to fly. Have a wonderful day people.” ― Kerry Katona

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

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

Mountain road with having a great day quotes by Ono

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ― Marcus Aurelius

“You’re going to struggle. You’re going to do well. You can’t really let the past or the day before – whether you had a good day or bad day – dictate the day you have that certain day.” ― Andrew Benintendi

“None of us know what will happen. Don’t spend time worrying about it. Make the most beautiful thing you can. Try to do that every day. That’s it.” ― Laurie Anderson

“I pray quite a bit, actually. And even if you don’t believe in prayer, just have a go. Pray for a good day, or just pray for your friend, or whatever it might be. And it’s amazing, man, ‘cause it absolutely works. I guarantee, it genuinely does work.” ― Rob Halford

“Some would suggest that a day would be great if everything they did turned out well, or they got exactly what they needed. On the other hand, have you ever thought that what you may give someone else may be the best day you ever had especially when you put someone else’s well-being or happiness first on your list?” ― Byron Pulsifer

Inspirational Quotes About Better Days to Come

“The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.” ― Hubert H. Humphrey

“Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.” ― Mark Twain

“Champagne makes you feel like it’s Sunday and better days are just around the corner.” ― Marlene Dietrich

“I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.” ― Rosa Parks

“And when life isn’t so good, remember that it will not last forever and better days are on the way.” ― Jenni Young

“Pause and remember nothing lasts forever. Better days are coming, but they will come faster with faith.” ― Jennifer Young

“Don’t ever lose hope because better days will come.” ― Ana Monnar

Desert landscape with inspirational quotes about better days to come by Monnar

“Everyday is a good day, just some days are better.” ― Farah Fawcett

“If you wish to live to see better days, then you must endure the bad days.” ― Abdul Kalam

“All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.” ― Wendell Berry

“The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, hoping for better ones ahead. The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful.” ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.” ― Muhammad Ali

“As you wait for better days, don’t forget to enjoy today, in case they’ve already started.” ― Robert Breault

“Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.” ― Dave Matthews

Good Morning Quotes

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

“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.” — Larry Page

“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.” — Lemony Snicket

“The secret to a good morning is to watch the sunrise with an open heart.” – Anthony T. Hincks

Sunrise over ocean with good morning beautiful quotes

“If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.” — Elon Musk

“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.” — Miles Davis

“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

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed.” — Malak El Halabi

“I like my coffee black and my mornings bright.” – Terri Guillemets

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

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

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.” — Rumi

“Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.” — Doe Zantamata

So there you have it! We hope we were able to help you find the perfect quotes.

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I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.

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