You open your eyes as the morning sun is flowing into your home.
A brand new day is here. What will you do with it?
In today’s post I’d like to share time-tested wisdom about just that. The 102 best new day quotes that I’ve found in the past few years.
I hope this post will help you to set a positive and motivated tone for your morning. Because I’ve found that the tone you set for the start of your day tends to spill over to the rest of the day too.
And if you want even more inspirational quotes then check out this post with quotes on better days ahead and this one filled with new beginnings quotes.
Inspirational New Day Quotes
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend or a meaningful day.”
Dalai Lama
“Today is a brand new day. Forget about yesterday. It does not matter. Forget about tomorrow, it will take care of itself. Concentrate on this day. Make it the best ever.”
Mary-Frances Winters
“Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it.”
Mary Pickford
“I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written.”
Juansen Dizon
“Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.”
Carrie Underwood
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell
“The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.”
Terry Goodkind
“It takes strength to step enthusiastically into each day of our lives. This strength comes more readily on some days than on others, but every day makes demands on us.”
Karen Casey
“Every day that you open your eyes is a new day and another day to get it right.”
Jean Renee Porter
“Today is a brand new day, a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
“Today is a day for you to begin creating a joyous, fulfilling life. Today is the day to begin to release all your limitations. Today is the day for you to learn the secrets of life. You can change your life for the better. You already have the tools within you to do so. These tools are your thoughts and your beliefs.”
Louise Hay
“Yesterday ended last night, today is a brand-new day. And it’s yours.”
Zig Ziglar
“Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.”
Dwight Howard
“As you wake up today a new day lies before you. How will you use it? What will you fill it with? Take a couple of minutes to ponder those questions and then start building an excellent day that you’ll remember.”
Unknown
“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.”
Og Mandino
“Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.”
Catherine Pulsifer
“Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.”
Ben Zobrist
“This new day has greeted us with no rules; unconditional opportunity. Do not dilute the power of this new day with the hardship of yesterday. Greet this day the way it has greeted you; with open arms and endless possibility.”
Steve Maraboli
“Everyday is a new life to a wise man.”
Dale Carnegie
“Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations are really present thoughts. No one has ever lived in any moment except the present.”
Emmet Fox
“All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.”
Shannon L. Alder
“Celebrate the new day with shouts of praise, love and grace and with a beautiful smile upon your face.”
Caroline Naoroji
“Each new day offers the chance to start afresh, to achieve those things you most desires.”
Steven Redhead
“You cannot go back and start a brand new beginning, but today is a new day and you can start a brand new thing.”
Debasish Mridha
“Wash away negative experiences of the day from your mind. Be confident in knowing that a new day brings new experiences and a new beginning.”
Shadonna Richards
“A new day is a new chance to do what you deep want and need.”
Unknown
“Imagine if we treated each new dawn of each new day with the same reverence and joy as we do each new year.”
Angie Lynn
“The past is gone. Today is full of possibilities.”
Karen Casey
“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”
Abbie Hoffman
“That’s the beauty of a grand new day—it’s available to every person in unique and fresh ways.”
Margaret Feinberg
“Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.”
Doe Zantamata
You may also find this post with quotes on starting over uplifting and helpful.
Motivating Tomorrow is a New Day Quotes
“On the other side of this darkness, a new day will slowly dawn.”
Corban Addison
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
L.M. Montgomery
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Zig Ziglar
“I’m glad tomorrow’s a new day ’cause I really messed this one up.”
Susan Gale
“Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”
Brad Paisley
“Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.”
Zig Ziglar
“Never discount the simple power of a new day and a fresh morning for new ideas and steps forward in your life.”
Unknown
“Never look back reminiscing on yesterday, smile for the future tomorrow’s a new day.”
Zayn Malik
“Yes, today was a tough and rough day. But don’t carry it with you. As best you can, let tomorrow be a fresh start and a new blessing.”
Unknown
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Believe in the future’s promise, each new day brings a new chance.”
Wish Belkin
“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
Colin Powell
“If you’re not getting it perfect, life is still going to go around. The world still turns. It’s going to be OK. Tomorrow is a new day.”
Katy Mixon
“The present circumstances may look a bit bleak as you go to bed. But try to leave as much of that as you can behind as you go into tomorrow and as you work to make it into a better and beautiful day.”
Unknown
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive and Uplifting New Day Quotes
“By being the best, you can be, the most skillful in your endeavor and by loving yourself, your life and what you do with it, you’ll happily begin every new day with a spring in your step.”
Ross Wilson
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Buddha
“You just can’t live that negative way. You know what I mean? Make way for the positive day cause it’s a new day.”
Bob Marley
“It’s a new day. You don”t have to look behind and relive the past with regret and you don’t have to dream of a distant future to try to capture happiness. Today is your time and you can be happy today.”
Patricia Edwards
“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
Alan Cohen
“When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.”
F. Sionil Jose
“This is a new day. Begin anew to claim and create all that is good.”
Louise Hay
“Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper.”
Haruki Murakami
“There is beauty laced within this day, be courageous enough to find it, be kind enough to share it, and at the end of the day, be wise enough to let it go.”
Steve Maraboli
“Each day is a new day, a new opportunity to work towards making your life the way you want it.”
Josie Cluney
“New day, new hopes, new life.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be.”
Marsha Petrie Sue
“If you’re not happy today, then you won’t be happy and glad tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.”
Sonja Lyubomirsky
“Get your day off to a positive start: establish a daily self-care routine so you can face the world feeling fresh.”
Julia Laflin
“Every single day is an opportunity for you to start anew; I call this my ’24-hour Reset Button.’ Each new day stands alone and brings you another chance to move closer towards your goals, so make each day a Great Day!”
Tamara Tilleman
“New day. New thoughts. New strength. New possibilities.”
Karen Salmansohn
“Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life; gifted with hopes to succeed.”
Aniruddha Sastikar
“Every day is new. It’s just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.”
Wiz Khalifa
“Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.”
Douglas Pagels
“Today is a new day for the land.”
Antonis Samaras
“Today is a new day. It’s a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the same crap, different day lie. How many days has that lie stolen from you? Seize the wonder and uniqueness of today. Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.”
Steve Maraboli
“Every new day begins with possibilities.”
Ronald Reagan
“To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.”
Debbie Ford
Be sure to check out this post about turning a bad day around out too.
Morning Quotes to Start Your New Day Just Right
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
Dalai Lama
“There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.”
Alan Watts
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
Meister Eckhart
“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“If the sun comes up, I have a chance.”
Venus Williams
“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
Harvey Mackay
“Getting a good start in the morning is the difference between having a mentally and physically good day and a terrible day.”
Sumit Gautam
“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“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
“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
“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
“No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.”
Buddha
“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
Mark Twain
“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
“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
Billy Wilder
“Here on the pulse of this new day, you may have the grace to look up and out and into your sister’s eyes, into your brother’s face, your country and say simply, very simply, with hope, good morning.”
Maya Angelou
“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
“Today’s a new day. It’s your day. You shape it. Don’t let it be shaped by someone else’s ignorance or fear.”
Steve Maraboli
“Every morning is a chance at a new day.”
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“If you want to get your work done 50% faster in a given day, meditate for 20 minutes in the morning.”
Tim Ferriss
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
George Horace Lorimer
“Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days—which inevitably create a successful life.”
Hal Elrod
“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
Richard Whately
“A brand new morning, as that first light of the day hits your face, brings new hope and new opportunities to receive with open arms.”
Unknown
“At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.”
Czeslaw Milosz
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Just aim at making this next morning coming up in your life into a good one, into one that sets a positive tone for the rest of your day.”
Unknown
“He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.”
Victor Hugo
“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a deep breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson
Want even more fresh energy and motivational quotes? Check out this post with inspiring quotes about positive energy and this one that’s all about having a good morning.