Everyone needs the motivation to get through the bad phases of life, to capture that silver lining that can thrust them ahead, away from hasty obstacles keeping them down. Here a few motivational thoughts to improve your day. 

  1. Today is not just a simple day. Today matters because today you will have a choice of making a decision that can change your life. Either you can frown or smile, it’s your choice. Today you can either move ahead from all your hopeless past and shine in the future, or remain chained to that past. Today you have the choice to laugh or to cry.  

2. Love yourself. Believe in yourself. Appreciate yourself. Make yourself strict and serious about life, but not too serious that ruins the fun of your life. Do not give up on yourself and do not disappoint yourself. Be your best self, no matter what happens. Just get up today and smile for the world is all yours. 

3. Do not make excuses for not doing something. Keep on improving yourself till you are left with no more of these excuses. 

4. Release all the negative things from the past. Prepare yourself for new changes and new lessons. Open yourself to better opportunities to grow physically and mentally. 

5. Don’t let anyone push you around. This is your day, your month and your year. Stop feeling guilty for something you haven’t even done and stop sacrificing your happiness for the ones who don’t deserve it. 

6. Run out of reasons to be optimistic? Smile, close your eyes and lie on your back. You will find a million other reasons.  

7. When you rise in the morning, thank God that you made it to another day. Thank Him for all the blessings you received yesterday and will receive today. Thank Him for the food and the joy of living, and if you don't find any reason to thank Him, the faults are inside you. 

8. Accompany those who can value your presence and not your worldly price. 

9. Smile at a stranger for you may never see him again, and that smile could lighten up his day. 

10. Life is not about building boundaries and walls. It’s about breaking them down and moving ahead. 

11. Treat the obstacles not as a problem but as a game. Try to win this game because you deserve it. 

12. Before you go on competing others, know yourself. Know you strengths, weaknesses and deal with them so you can face others. 

13. Your limitations are your creation, covering your unwillingness to try. 

14. Don’t always believe what you see for sight can also be a lie. Question it, reason it and learn about it. 

15. Your words are the greatest power you have. Make good use of them. 

16. Don’t over think too much and don’t wait for others to certify your point. If you want to do it, just do it. 

17. Always have the eyes that see the best, a heart that prays for the best and a soul that doesn’t lose faith in God. 

18. Be thankful to those people who taught you what life is. 

19. Self-talk if necessary. It’s a conversation with the universe that teaches you a lot. 

20. You will never know how close you were to your success if you quite at the last moment for success is failure turned inside out. Stick to it and wait.