Bad Day quotes
263 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing."
"You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul."
"Happiness is in your ability to love others."
"No matter what it is, you're going to have the bad days, but if you have hope throughout, you won, no matter what the results, Life is so beautiful."
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
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"No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. Regardless of what happens to you, never say you are having a bad day... say you are having a character building day. All the things that you are going through are building your character. You are being shaped and designed for your greatness. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!"
"I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who's having a good time. You sure as hell don't want to be with somebody who's having a bad day."
"There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple."
"Great acts are made up of small deeds."
"There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going."
"At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged."
"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it."
"Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light..."
"If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always."
"Nothing is worth more than this day."
"Every dog must have his day."
"I'm all about challenges and seeing if I can go out and see if I can achieve something. If at the end of the day I do it, great. If I don't, I can live with myself."
"If you're having a bad day the main thing on the mental side is realizing that I'm having a bad day and thinking about why and then just kind of re-prioritizing and saying, "I'm going to let myself have this bad day, but tomorrow I'm going to get back on track." That's pretty much it. We all have them. You do have to let yourself have them and then go within and figure out why you're having it and prevent it from happening again."
"Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it."
"I still believe in peace, love and understanding."
"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."
"You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes"."
"I think that everybody has hard work side, no matter what your job is, you have bad days, you have people you don't get along with. The thing about modeling is every single day you're working with a completely new team so every single day is your first day of work or your first day of school. And you can't really have an off day because that will be the only experience they have with you."
"Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become."
"Who says that my dreams have to just stay my dreams?"
