When life changes and a difficult time begins then it’s not always easy to remain positive.

I know.

Even if you’re pretty optimistic and positive in daily life, it’s easy to get dragged down into pessimism and a sad funk when you’re having a rough week or tough month.

But being able to keep a positive mindset can make a big difference.

So in today’s post I’d like to share the best tips and habits that have helped me over the past 10+ years and still helps me today to handle times like that in a better, healthier and more helpful way.

I truly hope you’ll find something helpful here.

1. Feel what you feel and know it’s OK to do so.

I’ve found that one thing that helps me with my mental health when times get tough is to not deny or push away how I feel.

When a negative situation has just happened and I’m in the middle of it then I at first may feel afraid, nervous, worried or angry. Or a mix of those emotions. That’s normal.

Acknowledging negative thoughts and feelings that can arise from such a situation helps me to process what has happened in a quicker and less painful way compared to if I try to reject such thoughts and emotions.

And it also helps me to, after a while, move on to the next stage of trying to solve or at least improve upon the situation at hand.

So, first know it’s OK to feel and think what you feel. But don’t get stuck in focusing and mulling that over for days or weeks.

2. Ask helpful questions.

A simple next step to move forward is to ask yourself better questions than you may sometimes do in these situations (I, at least, certainly used to ask myself questions all the time that only made me feel worse).

This will help you to regain a positive outlook and find a positive interpretation of the events.

Some of my favorite questions are for example:

• What is one thing that is positive or good about this situation?
• What is one opportunity within this situation?
• Will this matter 5 years from now? Or even 5 months from now?
• What is one small action, one small and practical step I can take to start turning this situation around?

Ask yourself one or a few of these questions to move yourself into a more optimistic and energetic state of mind and to start making a small plan for what you can do to improve the situation you’re in.

3. Talk it over with someone close to you.

This is one of the most powerful tips in this post and one my most used ones.

Just letting your thoughts and feelings out can be a powerful thing. It can relieve stress and anxiety and all the inner pressure that has built up inside.

And it can help you find a new perspective.

Sometimes as someone close to you simply listens and as you vent and figure things out for yourself.

And sometimes as the other person helps you to navigate your situation and out of negative thinking by sharing what they did when they had similar troubles or by building a small plan together with you for what you need to do next.

4. Get some good knowledge.

You can dispel vague fear and the clouds of uncertainty and anxiety in your mind by doing a bit of research.

By talking to people who have been where you are – or reading their books or listening to their podcasts – you can start to build a realistic roadmap of what your best course of action is and what you can expect on your journey.

This clarity may sometimes bring you new, possible obstacles on your path forward that you had not thought about. But I’ve found that it is a small price to pay. And knowing about them makes it a lot easier to overcome them or reduce their impact compared to if you are just stumbling around in the dark.

5. Tap into gratitude for a few minutes.

Yes, times may be tough right now. It’s not fun.

But there are usually things one can still be grateful for. And tapping into such gratitude tends to be a great way to change your perspective and to improve your energy levels and mood.

A few of the things I tend to feel thankful for even when times are hard are:

• Three meals a day.
• A roof over my head during the windy and rainy fall and the cold winter days.
• Plenty of clean water.

You can find more of these things in this post: 10 Simple Things You Can Be Grateful for Even When Times are Tough.

6. Spend less time on your phone and negative sources.

Keeping yourself updated on what’s happening in your community and the world is helpful.

But spending too much time doomscrolling online or – in my experience at least – on your phone in general tends to lead to more stress, anxiety and negative feelings and thoughts bouncing around in your head.

So spend a bit of time – but not too much – on the news (and especially the negative news stories). And limit your screen time, especially on your phone.

I’ve found that doing this makes me feel better and more optimistic. Especially when I am already going through some tough days, weeks or months. Or during times when it just seems hard to stay positive in a negative world.

7. Readjust your environment to be more supportive and positive.

So spending less time on negative sources of information helps. Spending more of the time you have now freed up from that on positive and supportive sources helps even more.

Find books, Youtube channels, podcasts and so on that uplifts you, helps you to feel better and give you ideas for how to handle challenges in your life.

Then, take the next step to reshape your daily and monthly environment to be a more positive space. Take a look at the people in your life and how they affect you.

Because the people we spend the most time with tend to have a pretty big effect on how we feel and think about things and how resilient we are during hardships.

You can for example ask yourself:

• Who are the 3 most negative people I spend time with?
• Who are the 3 most positive and supportive people I spend time with?

Then take a bit of time to figure out how to spend less time with those most negative people and more of the time you free up from that with the most positive people.

8. Spend more time outside and in nature.

I find that if I just go out and cut some grass or do some garden work I tend to feel better and refreshed.

And the same goes for taking a walk in the woods, by the ocean or anywhere out in nature in some form.

It makes it easier to think clearly and optimistically again and the fresh air and exercise recharges my energy.

9. Help someone out.

Perhaps a bit counter-intuitive if you’re not feeling so good about your own life.

But helping someone out when you yourself are going through a tough time can in my experience help a lot.

I’ve found that it gets me out of my head and away from getting stuck in mulling the same negative thoughts over and over.

And if the situation I am going through makes me feel powerless or like a victim then helping someone else out makes me feel strong and capable again.

Plus, their happiness from being helped flows over to me too. And if you help someone then they will often return that favor in some way sooner or later.

A few simple ways to help someone out are to:

• Give them a hand practically with something.
• Give them some good advice based on your experience.
• Just listen when they vent or need to let something out.
• Give them a genuine compliment for something that means a lot to them or something they do that is too often taken for granted.

10. Spend more time in the present moment.

Learn what you can from the past. And plan for the future by, for example, writing out a plan for the week during Monday morning and then by doing a short to-do list or plan each morning for your day.

But after you’ve done that, don’t linger too much in the past or future because it can bring much fear, worries and negative feelings if you are already in a difficult situation.

Instead, try to spend only 20% or so in the past or future and the rest in the present moment.

I’ve found that when I spend most of my time in the present moment then it’s a lot easier to keep up the motivation, the energy and to access positive emotions.

And to stay practical about what I can do about a negative situation in my life and actually take steps forward with that.

A simple way to reconnect with the present moment if you are slipping into the past or future and getting stuck there is to focus just on what’s going on around you right now for a minute or two.

Feel it with all your senses. See it in detail…

• Hear the birds or cars going by outside your window.
• Smell the cold autumn air of the coffee brewing in the next room.
• Feel the sun, rain or wind on your skin.

You can find a few more ways to spend more time in the present moment in your daily life in this post.

11. Focus on physical fundamentals.

When you’re in a tough situation then it’s easy to stop paying much attention to the fundamental building blocks of daily life.

You feel you simply don’t have time for that and you forget about it. But it’s at these times when the fundamentals can be more important than ever for how you think, feel and act.

The fundamentals I’m referring to are basics such as eating well, exercising and getting enough quality sleep.

These simple things – often ignored because they seem a bit boring or basic – make staying positive easier.

So as best you can, even though your situation may be difficult, try to eat healthy meals, to get some exercise in (even just regular walks) and to not skip on sleep (you can find my guide to sleeping better here).

12. Prepare if you think you’ll receive potentially negative news.

It could be some news at work, with your health or finances or perhaps with family or a pet.

No matter what the potential upcoming situation might be, I have many times found it very helpful to make a small plan or know just one or a few steps I can take if that situation becomes reality.

For example:

• Actions you can take to reduce the severity of the issue you may be facing.
• Looking up what others have done in such situations.
• Preparing your surroundings and home so they are comfortable and filled with things you enjoy and people you love.

Sometimes I don’t need this plan because those potential negative news don’t become reality. Or they are simply so much smaller than I feared that they aren’t that much to deal with at all.

But I still find that the plan helps me because when I’ve written it down I tend to release most of my worrying and negative thoughts about that situation. And so I now feel better and can focus my thoughts and energy again on other things I want to do and enjoy.

13. Remind yourself: I have handled tough situations in the past.

No matter if you just landed in a negative situation, if you’ve been there for a while or fear you may soon wind up in such a situation it’s easy to lose your faith in yourself.

To forget that you have handled tough situations before.

But you have. Many times.

So remind yourself of this simple fact to make it easier to stay optimistic. And to breathe, to calm down and to figure out what you’ve learned from situations in the past that can help you this time too.

14. Seek professional help.

If you use one or a few of these tips for a bit of time and still don’t get the result and inner change you want then consider getting professional one-on-one help.

Getting that on-going support and help in person from an expert like a mental health professional can make a big difference.

Want to more information and motivation to help you stay positive? Then check out this post with 19 tips on how to stay positive and this one on how to stay positive at work.

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Family it’s at the heart.

It’s here we find support, love and the people that often know us better than anyone else (and so they know what help we truly need).

And in today’s post I want to focus on that and share 110 of the most loving, positive and inspirational short family quotes.

Use them in a card, in a family group chat, on social media like Instagram or in real life to share the love, express your gratitude and to brighten the day of your family.

No matter if it’s the one you were born into or the one you’ve chosen.

Short Family Quotes on Love and Togetherness

“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
– Peter Buffett

“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
– John Wooden

“Time together as a family is a gift.”
– Joanna Gaines

“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”
– Deb Caletti

“My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.”
– Michael Imperioli

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
– Michael J. Fox

“Family is not defined by our genes, it is built and maintained through love.”
– Amalia G.

“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
– Barbara Bush

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
– Mother Teresa

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”
– Albert Einstein

“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
– Maya Angelou

“Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.”
– Lisa Weed

“The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege.”
– Charles Kuralt

“It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family.”
– Menachem Begin

“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”
– Irina Shayk

“The memories we make with our family is everything.”
– Candace Cameron Bure

“The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.”
– Louis Zamperini

“Family is the most important thing in the world.”
– Princess Diana

“The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.”
– Eva Burrows

“Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.”
– Walt Disney

“I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.”
– Barbara Bush

“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
– Paul McCartney

Short and Funny Family Quotes

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
– George Burns

“The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.”
– George Carlin

“A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.”
– Robert Brault

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

“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
– Cary Grant

“My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.”
– Rick Riordan

“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.”
– Ellen DeGeneres

“Parents are like God because you wanna know they’re out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“Families are like fudge – mostly sweet, with a few nuts.”
– Les Dawson

“Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”
– Martin Mull

“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
– Mary Karr

“Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.”
– Evan Esar

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney

“I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.”
– Bob Hope

“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

“Remember, as far as anyone knows, we’re a nice, normal family.”
– Homer Simpson

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
– Oscar Wilde

Short and Inspirational Family Quotes and Sayings

“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”
– Brad Henry

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
– James Baldwin

“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.”
– Paul Pearsall

“I know for sure: Family should be the place where you can be your most complete self.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Think of your family today and every day thereafter. Don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family.”
– Josiah

“You need a rock-solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.”
– Lilly Singh

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
– Jane Howard

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.”
– George Santayana

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
– Anthony Brandt

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”
– Khalil Gibran

“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.”
– Haniel Long

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues are created, strengthened, and maintained.”
– Winston Churchill

“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong.”
– George Washington Carver

“Above all, children need our unconditional love, whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.”
– Barack Obama

“My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn’t a social construct but an instinct.”
– Jodi Picoult

“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”
– Lee Iacocca

“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.”
– Alex Haley

“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”
– Charles R. Swindoll

“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
– Walt Disney

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.”
– C.S. Lewis

“To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.”
– Buddha

“With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.”
– Michelle Obama

“You go through life wondering what is it all about, but at the end of the day it’s all about family.”
– Rod Stewart

Positive and Short Family Quotes on the Bond You Share

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”
– Richard Bach

“In family relationships, ‘love’ is really spelled ‘t-i-m-e,’ time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home.”
– Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.”
– Niki Taylor

“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are.”
– Dez Del Rio

“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”
– Mario Puzo

“Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”
– David Ogden Stiers

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.”
– Jim Butcher

“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”
– Margaret Mead

“The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.”
– Dodie Smith

“You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.”
– Elizabeth Berg

“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”
– Mitch Albom

“If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.”
– Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.”
– Guy Lafleur

“It’s all about the quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.”
– Philip Green

“Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.”
– John C. Maxwell

“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.”
– Anthony Liccione

“My life is proof that no matter what situation you’re in, as long as you have a supportive family, you can achieve anything.”
– Michaela DePrince

“The foundation of family – that’s where it all begins for me.”
– Faith Hill

“Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.”
– Reinhold Niebuhr

“I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.”
– Jet Li

“Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow.”
– Bill Owens

Short, Cute and Deep Family Quotes

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

“May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.”
– Leonard Cohen

“I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.”
– Amos Oz

“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore.”
– Robin Hobb

“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”
– Pierce Brown

“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.”
– Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended – and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.”
– Robert Frost

“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.”
– Gail Lumet Buckley

“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.”
– Marge Kennedy

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
– Walt Whitman

“Friends are the family you choose.”
– Jess C. Scott

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
– Desmond Tutu

“The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.”
– Nancy Mitford

“The greatest gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.”
– Kendall Hailey

“In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.”
– Anna Quindlen

“The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.”
– Ring Lardner

“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.”
– Anita Baker

“I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.”
– Reba McEntire

“I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family.”
– José Carreras

Want more inspirational and short quotes on relationships? Then have a look at these short sister quotes, the short love quotes here and also this one with lots of short friendship quotes.

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It’s been a long and cold winter, but March is finally here.

With the promise of brighter days and fresh starts.

It’s a month with one foot in the cold and often unmotivated winter and the other in the warmth, optimism and hope of spring.

So in today’s post I’d like to share 101 of the most positive, inspirational and funny short March quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here to make this month and your spring a happy, fun and successful one.

Short and Positive March Quotes for a Happy Month

“Flowers and colours everywhere, I am so glad that March is here.”
– Anamika Mishra

“March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes, and a laugh in her voice.”
– Hal Borland

“Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“I love March as it gives me hope that new beginnings are always beautiful.”
– Anamika Mishra

“March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“By March, the worst of winter is over. And so hope springs once more and calls on us to make real the dreams of winter.”
– Unknown

“The earth laughs in flowers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“March brings breezes loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil.”
– Sara Coleridge

“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”
– Lady Bird Johnson

“This is the perfume of March: rain, loam, feathers, mint.”
– Lisa Kleypas

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
– Oscar Wilde

“You are reborn with the roses, in every spring.”
– Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Happiness? The color of it must be spring green.”
– Frances Mayes

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

“The world’s favorite season is spring because now all things seem possible.”
– Unknown

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
– Henri Matisse

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more hopeful.”
– Luther Burbank

“When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.”
– John O’Donohue

“Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

“Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is.”
– Jessica Harrelson

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

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
– Hal Borland

Short and Motivational March Quotes for Work and School

“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”
– Henry Rollins

“Only those with tenacity can march forward in March.”
– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Do the right things rather than the urgent things in March and you’re off to a great start to your spring.”
– Unknown

“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”
– John Muir

“March, when days are getting long, let thy growing hours be strong to set right some wintry wrong.”
– Caroline May

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
– Lao Tzu

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
– Leo Tolstoy

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

“The spring wakes us, nurtures us, and revitalizes us.”
– Gary Zukav

“From the end spring new beginnings.”
– Pliny The Elder

“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.”
– Josiyah Martin

“The warmth and sunshine of the finest March days awakens a new hope and source of energy in many of us.”
– Jim Harper

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the spring who reaps a harvest in the autumn.”
– B. C. Forbes

“Garden as though you will live forever.”
– William Kent

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
– Lao Tzu

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”
– Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”
– Robert H. Schuller

Funny Short March Quotes for a Less Stressful Spring

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

“I try not to limit my madness to March.”
– Maxine

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

“March is the month God created to show people who don’t drink what a hangover is like.”
– Garrison Keillor

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

“Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes. The wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.”
– Ogden Nash

“March 4th, the only day that’s also a sentence.”
– John Green

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“Everybody wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes.”
– P.J. O’Rourke (on Earth Day)

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

“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

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

“A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for the King.”
– Emily Dickinson

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

“Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.”
– Virginia Woolf

Short Hello March Quotes for Your Letter Board

“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.”
– Lewis Grizzard

“Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.”
– English Proverb

“March is the month of expectation.”
– Emily Dickinson

“March bustles in on windy feet and sweeps my doorstep and my street.”
– Susan Reiner

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
– Charles Dickens

“In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.”
– Jean Hersey

“A light exists in spring, not present in the year at any other period when March is scarcely here.”
– Emily Dickinson

“If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.”
– Audra Foveo

“Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty.”
– William Shakespeare

“To welcome her the spring breath’s forth Elysian sweets; March strews the Earth with violets and posies.”
– Edmund Waller

“In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.”
– John Steinbeck

“One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the spring.”
– Aldo Leopold

“March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.”
– English Proverb

“Every cold and dark phase ends and hence begins a beautiful phase of warmth and vibrance. Just notice March.”
– Anamika Mishra

“March: Its motto, courage and strength in times of danger.”
– William Morris

“A windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.”
– Julia Peterkin

“A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, a wind comes off a frozen peak, and you’re two months back in the middle of March.”
– Robert Frost

“How terrible a time is the beginning of March. You have to take spring on blind faith.”
– Beatriz Williams

“The stormy March has come at last, with winds and clouds and changing skies.”
– William C. Bryant

Short and Inspirational Welcome March Quotes for Your Instagram

“Spring will come, and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.”
– Anita Krizzan

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

“No matter what your March day may bring, live like it’s spring.”
– Unknown

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
– Victor Hugo

“I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather that God has to offer.”
– Dodie Smith

“Just living is not enough – one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
– Hans Christian Andersen

“The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”
– Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

“With the coming of spring, I am calm again.”
– Gustav Mahler

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”
– Ernest Hemingway

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

“That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.”
– Victor Hugo

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

“Spring is when life’s alive in everything.”
– Christina Rossetti

“Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”
– E.E. Cummings

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
– Margaret Atwood

“The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter.”
– Jen Selinsky

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”
– Walter C. Hagen

Want more inspiration and positive energy for your month and spring? Then check out these inspirational spring quotes, the funny spring quotes and sayings here and also this one with uplifting and positive March quotes.

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We all have those days at work when things just feel tough.

When we need some extra encouragement to keep moving forward.

So in today’s post I want to share 125 of the most motivational, kind and encouraging quotes.

To give you a boost of motivation if you’re having a tired morning, some helpful and kind words of wisdom if you feel down after a setback or mistake and a bit of inspiration and new ways of looking at things if you’re facing a tough challenge.

I hope you’ll find something comforting, uplifting and useful here.

Encouraging and Motivational Quotes for the Workplace

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
– Mark Twain

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
– Louis Pasteur

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn

“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

“The future depends on what you do today.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
– Confucius

“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
– Saint Francis of Assisi

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
– Dale Carnegie

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

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
– Alan Wilson Watts

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
– Stephen R. Covey

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
– Albert Einstein

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
– Bruce Lee

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
– Stephen Covey

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
– Roy T. Bennett

Short and Encouraging Quotes for Work

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
– Tim Notke

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
– Steve Martin

“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou

“The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.”
– Richard Bach

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
– Will Rogers

“The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney

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

“The best revenge is massive success.”
– Frank Sinatra

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
– Suzy Kassem

“Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
– Farrah Gray

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

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
– Amelia Earhart

“Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships.”
– Michael Jordan

“Impossible is just an opinion.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
– Warren Buffett

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
– Babe Ruth

“Light tomorrow with today.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

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

“Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude.”
– Ralph Marston

Funny and Encouraging Quotes for Those Boring Days at Work

“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.”
– Niels Bohr

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.”
– Betty Reese

“It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.”
– Mark Twain

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
– Bill Gates

“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”
– Groucho Marx

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so.”
– Douglas Adams

“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.”
– Leslie Nielsen

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.”
– Sarah Brown

“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.”
– Claude McDonald

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
– Edgar Bergen

“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

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
– Douglas Adams

“The reward for good work is more work.”
– Francesca Elisia

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
– Charles Lamb

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
– Robert Frost

“There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”
– Henry Kissinger

“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called everybody, and they meet at the bar.”
– Drew Carey

Kind and Encouraging Quotes for Setbacks in the Workplace

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.”
– Steve Maraboli

“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
– Maya Angelou

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
– Chinese Proverb

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus

“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
– Carl Bard

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
– Flavia Weedn

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
– Helen Keller

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
– Christopher Reeve

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”
– Zig Ziglar

“At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.”
– Christine Mason Miller

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
– Henry Ford

“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
– Harry Golden

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
– Marie Curie

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

Positive and Uplifting Words of Encouragement for Work

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
– Sarah Dessen

“The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.”
– Alexander Pope

“Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”
– Maya Angelou

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

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

“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.”
– Thomas Paine

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“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

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
– Jack Canfield

“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

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
– Dalai Lama

“You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar

“The expert at anything was once a beginner.”
– Helen Hayes

“Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you.”
– Michelle Obama

“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
– C.S. Lewis

“When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start happening.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain

Encouraging Quotes on Success and Hard Work

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”
– Dwayne Johnson

“Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.”
– Frank Ocean

“The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.”
– Deepika Padukone

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
– Robert Collier

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
– Vince Lombardi

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
– Colin Powell

“I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you.”
– Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
– Gail Devers

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
– Pele

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vidal Sassoon

“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”
– Kobe Bryant

“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.”
– Michael Phelps

“Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.”
– Virat Kohli

“If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.”
– Jane Goodall

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
– Ray Kroc

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices, and persistence.”
– Michelle Obama

“Work hard, have fun, make history.”
– Jeff Bezos

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Steve Jobs

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
– Stephen King

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

Want more inspiration and motivation for your work life? Then have a look at these short work quotes, the hard work quotes in this post and also this one with hilarious work quotes for stress relief.

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