Good Day Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 18, 2024
‘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
‘At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.’ – Simone Biles
‘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
‘I always say, ‘Have a good day and if you can’t, don’t you dare go messing up nobody else’s.” – Tabitha Brown
‘Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun’s shining or not.’ – Marty Robbins
‘Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.’ – Jurgen Klopp
‘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
‘I wake up every day and I think, ‘I’m breathing! It’s a good day.” – Eve Ensler
‘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
‘If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.’ – Cavett Robert
‘A good day is when no one shows up, and you don’t have to go anywhere.’ – Burt Shavitz
‘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
‘I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.’ – Bob Ross
‘When you’re playing against Messi, the feeling you have is that it’s just up to him. If he is in a good mood or is having a good day you cannot stop him. That is my honest opinion.’ – Antonio Rudiger
‘My dad was in radio; he was a broadcaster, and it was in the family. He hosted kind of a game show at one point on TV; he was the original host of ‘Good Day New York,’ and he hosted the Jerry Lewis telethon for 15 years.’ – Greg Fitzsimmons
‘Mondays are a good day to make statements, not Friday.’ – Ernie Els
‘Once you’ve stared death in the face, every day is a good day.’ – Mike Quigley
‘It’s a good feeling to know you’ve had a good day at work.’ – Adam Lallana
‘Sometimes you have a bad day, and you’re like, ‘I’m over this, and I just want to play tennis,’ or do another sport that doesn’t require any other variables, but then you have a good day, and it’s like, it’s amazing, and the success makes up for it.’ – Daniel Ricciardo
‘Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process – maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like ‘Lights Please’ happens like that.’ – J. Cole
‘Anytime I don’t have to wear a bra is a good day.’ – Amanda Seales
‘Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.’ – Iggy Pop
‘I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.’ – Bob Uecker
‘I think it’s a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.’ – Jane Kaczmarek
‘I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it’s narcissistic and pointless.’ – Hari Kunzru
‘Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.’ – Amy Grant
‘As long as you are winning it is a good day.’ – Per Mertesacker
‘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
‘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
‘I had an iPhone, and then I’d forget my iPhone at home, and I’d be like, ‘God, I feel so good. I’m having such a good day.’ And then I’d realize, ‘Oh – it’s because I’m not checking my email nineteen thousand times.” – Alden Ehrenreich
‘Every day is a good day above ground, and especially being able to play metal and being able to your craft and everything. You’ve gotta respect that, because it’s something that can be taken away from you really quick.’ – Joey Jordison
‘Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.’ – Rodney King
‘I don’t want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it’s a good day. So, give me more!’ – Faith Hill
‘I love the unknown, and any day that I get to experience someplace new is a good day.’ – Josh Gates
‘I devised the Bert Lance Toe Test then – you go out on the front porch of the house, turn ‘The Washington Post’ over with your big toe, and if your name’s above the fold, you know you’re not going to have a good day.’ – Bert Lance
‘Any day on the field is a good day.’ – Fernando Tatis Jr.
‘The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don’t necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.’ – Drew Barrymore
‘Probably the worst time in a person’s life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it’s been a pretty good day.’ – Emo Philips
‘The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I’m just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.’ – Iyanla Vanzant
‘If he’s having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters… nobody except me.’ – Steve Prefontaine
‘We need to say to everyone on Election Day, ‘Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job.” – Mitch McConnell
‘If I was on a ‘Modern Family’ kind of show, and they said, ‘You have to say that the burger is $5.55; Have a good day!’… I could do that!’ – Charlie Puth
‘On a bad day, I’ll still have a conscious thing in my mind reminding me that what I think of as a bad day is still a very good day in probably 90% of the world’s population’s eyes.’ – Daniel Ricciardo
‘If it’s a good day, I get ‘The New York Times’ on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I’m eating.’ – Taylor Schilling
‘And I’m a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That’s the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.’ – Shelby Foote
‘The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day.’ – Michelle Pfeiffer
‘There will be bowlers who will be having a good day, so it is important to give them their due. At the same time, you have put pressure on other bowlers who are not having an entirely good outing.’ – Dinesh Karthik
‘Every day is a good day when you’re floating. Your whole life you spend walking around Earth and then all of a sudden you get to fly like you’ve dreamed of.’ – Anne McClain
‘Comedy comes out of everyone’s worst day. No one writes a sitcom episode about everyone having a good day. It’s always about someone being locked out of their house or someone being dumped or whatever.’ – Jim Jefferies
‘On a day when you’re tired, it’s important to just say good morning to everyone so they’re kind of aware that it’s gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.’ – Lindsay Lohan
‘I’m 5 feet tall, and that’s on a good day.’ – Isabela Moner
‘I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger.’ – Sloane Crosley
‘Every day should be a good day. People fool themselves that they’ll be here forever.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman
‘Pretty much any day is a good day to go to the ballpark, but that first day of the season is special. It’s spring. The grass is green. Pessimism is impossible – at least, until the other team scores.’ – Ben Fountain
‘I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.’ – Mario Cuomo
‘When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I’m going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it’s big and heavy, I know I’m liable to get into a little trouble.’ – Bob Feller
‘Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.’ – Kevin James
‘I’ve had a good day when I don’t fall out of the cart.’ – Buddy Hackett
‘We can’t control what the ratings will be. It’s like, if you’re going to go skiing, do you hope you’ll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won’t break your leg? Yes.’ – David Hyde Pierce
‘Some days I’m lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.’ – Dean Koontz
‘Whenever I don’t have to wear makeup, it’s a good day.’ – Cameron Diaz
‘When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, ‘It’s okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.’ Because we’re such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th.’ – Sarah Ferguson
‘A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.’ – Christopher Hitchens
‘People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie… you know, we didn’t always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.’ – Faith Evans
‘My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.’ – Gene Simmons
‘I believe in breakfast. It’s the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that’s huge. As for myself, I can’t function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.’ – Samantha Bee
‘If I don’t laugh at least 20 times a day – it hasn’t been a good day.’ – Jordin Sparks
‘Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren’t too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I’ve never written a good line.’ – Dennis Lehane
‘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
‘Well, I’m a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I’d love to be more efficient, but I am not.’ – Charles Frazier
‘My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it’s landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything.’ – Dianna Agron
‘With every job I’ve gotten, I’ve bought myself something. When ‘Glee’ was picked up, I rented a piano for the year. For smaller victories, I’ll go to dinner with a friend, or go for a walk and think about it all. It’s important to say to yourself, Today was a good day.’ – Dianna Agron
‘A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.’ – Bob Beauprez
‘My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.’ – Abraham Verghese
‘On a good day I write, all day.’ – Nick Flynn
‘As a dancer I’ve always checked my body constantly; ‘Am I having a good day or am I having a fat day?” – Bonnie Langford
‘If you give me a typewriter and I’m having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry – that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn’t cost much to do that.’ – Alan Moore
‘Every day that I get to step onto a set is a good day for me.’ – Lee Norris
‘My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I’m just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’ is good proof of that.’ – Yuliya Snigir
‘I came to Los Angeles only after filming ‘A Good Day to Die Hard,’ when I was cast in the independent movie ‘Delirium.’ Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.’ – Yuliya Snigir
‘I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that’s from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.’ – Elmore Leonard
‘I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and orange dungarees. That, combined with a perfectly round pudding-bowl haircut, made me look, on a good day, like a cross between Ann Widdecombe, one of the Flower Pot Men, and a monk.’ – Miranda Hart
‘There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That’s something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and – on a good day – like about myself.’ – Idina Menzel
‘The daily quota I’ve set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn’t much, except that I’m extremely slow, extremely meticulous. ‘Le mot juste’ haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o’clock, and I’ll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.’ – Said Sayrafiezadeh
‘I think of basset hounds whenever I turn on my computer because I have photos of them. And if I’m lucky, and I see one on the street, I know it’s going to be a good day. They really are like a four-leaf clover.’ – Julie Klausner
‘You know you’re going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.’ – Hannah Kent
‘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
‘Every good day starts off with a cappuccino, and there’s no place better to enjoy some frothy caffeine than at the Bulgari Hotel.’ – Brad Goreski
‘I’m a very consistent leader, and people won’t find me different day to day. You won’t have to have the sort of conversation that says, ‘How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?’ You won’t find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.’ – Gail Kelly
‘As a dancer, I’ve always checked my body constantly: ‘Am I having a good day, or am I having a fat day?’ I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else. I am very tiny – 5’1 and a half inches – so there’s nowhere for weight to hide.’ – Bonnie Langford
‘When you come off that last hole and you’ve just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it’s just not a very good day. It just isn’t.’ – Tom Watson
‘After ‘A Good Day to Die Hard,’ I had a bit of an identity crisis as far as where I wanted to place myself in the business. When it’s all new and fresh, there is a lot of pressure to know what you represent, and I didn’t really get that.’ – Jai Courtney
‘To be really in shape, it’s dynamic. It’s got to be a lot of different everything, always switching it up. So a good day for me would be hit the gym, do some sort of cross training in the gym and then go surfing and then maybe take a jiu-jitsu class at night or go swimming at night or go stand up paddle boarding in the evening.’ – Scott Eastwood
‘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 the day comes where I can have my own action figure… I defy any actor to say that’s not a good day.’ – Owain Yeoman
‘I consider I’ve had a good day when, among the lines I’ve written, I’ve produced from my innermost core what I call ‘the appearance of the pearl.’ That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.’ – Ismail Kadare
‘On a good day, I usually tweet 50 to 100 times.’ – Jacob Whitesides
‘I’m 6’3″ and 185 pounds on a good day, so I probably relate more to the casual fan who watches the game and is not super athletic, not this crazy monster of physical stature.’ – Stephen Curry
‘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
‘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
‘If I’m not Top 10 or seeded every tournament, it really doesn’t matter. I can beat anyone on a good day.’ – Caroline Wozniacki
‘My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you’re going through a bad period, and you just can’t see the world’s on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you’re missing the whole point of the experience. And that’s something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.’ – W. Bruce Cameron
‘On a good day, I’m a bitter, angry, chip-on-my-shoulder type of guy.’ – Dolph Ziggler
‘This is Staples. On a good day, we get to stay at the Marriott Courtyard. We have a frugal culture.’ – Shira Goodman
‘A good day to me is writing from 6 A.M. ’til noon with a break to take my daughter to school. After lunch, if I still feel the momentum, I’ll hit it again.’ – Michael Connelly
‘The fulfillment I get from a good day of writing is addictive and will always bring me back the next day.’ – Michael Connelly
‘I choose to live in the present because when you suffer from chronic illness, you don’t have a choice. It’s day by day, one foot in front of the other. When there is a good day, you soak up that moment. Those ‘good selfie’ moments are captured because they’re a gift.’ – Yolanda Hadid
‘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 know I’ve had a charmed experience of being a parent, with healthy kids, a helpful partner, access to good day care, and great public schools.’ – Rumaan Alam
‘I really detest brunch. I think it’s a waste of a good day. Detest is a little too severe, but I would say I’m not a brunch person.’ – Cynthia Rowley
‘Nigeria is a difficult place. It is not a country for the faint of heart. On a good day, when our larger cities such as Abuja, Lagos, and Kano are filled with the teeming masses going in so many different directions, flogged by the heat and sun, bumping down uneven roads all in the name of ‘the hustle,’ it can appear chaotic.’ – Uzodinma Iweala
‘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
‘There’s no way to stop Messi. The only way is for him not to have a good day, but that’s difficult because most of the times he has good days.’ – Alvaro Morata
‘I’ve always measured a good day as one where I can read, write, and run.’ – Maggie Rogers
‘I’m 5’2”, 5’3” on a good day.’ – Katy Tur
‘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
‘Every day that I wake up has to be a good day!’ – Bret Michaels
‘On a good day, when you have a clear plan, you are able to execute whatever you wanted.’ – Jasprit Bumrah
‘Obviously, maturity helps, knowing that you definitely have to make every day a good day. If not, somebody else is out there putting in the work.’ – Frances Tiafoe
‘Not every day is a good day for me.’ – Megan Thee Stallion
‘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
‘My 2-year-old has become my alarm, so on a good day, 7:30 A. M. or 8 A. M. My alarm sounds something like, ‘Mama, where are you?” – Lindsay Shookus
‘On a good day everybody can beat everybody.’ – Chris Hughton
‘I don’t even know how tall I am. I’m hoping 6-4. I’m 6-4, 6-5 on a good day.’ – Bradley Beal
‘I wake up each night eight times a night or so because of my knee or my back or my elbow or my shoulder. If I wake up one day and am not crippled-feeling then I’m shocked like, wow, it’s going to be a good day.’ – Mark Schlereth
‘The characters in ‘Stella’ wake up and they want to have a good day. They don’t set out to make someone’s life a misery.’ – Ruth Jones