150+ Wednesday Quotes to Brighten Your Mid Week

As the midweek marker, Wednesday often gets a mixed reception. For some, it's a reminder that the weekend is approaching; for others, it's a stark realization that there's still much to do before the week is out.

But no matter how you feel about Wednesday, it's an opportunity for a fresh burst of motivation, positivity and gratitude. That's why we've compiled over 150 quotes to help you power through Hump Day with renewed enthusiasm 💪, a grateful heart ❤️, and a smile on your face 😊.

Motivational Quotes to Keep You Going

1. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt
2. "Today is a new day. Embrace it!" – Anonymous
3. "Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." – Joshua J. Marine
4. "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." – Robert Collier
5. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman
6. "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." – Christian D. Larson
7. "The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." – Charles Kingsleigh
8. "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking." – William Butler Yeats
9. "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson
10. "Your limitation—it's only your imagination." – Anonymous
11. "The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it." – Anonymous
12. "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe
13. "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." – Vincent Van Gogh
14. "The future depends on what you do today." – Mahatma Gandhi
15. "Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done." – Anonymous
16. "You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." – Zig Ziglar
17. "Dream big and dare to fail." – Norman Vaughan
18. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James
19. "Success is not in what you have, but who you are." – Bo Bennett
20. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." – Henry David Thoreau
21. "Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you." – Anonymous
22. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." – Albert Schweitzer
23. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." – Peter Drucker
24. "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." – Les Brown
25. "Opportunities don't happen, you create them." – Chris Grosser

Positivity for a Boost of Energy

1. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." – Eleanor Roosevelt
2. "Every moment is a fresh beginning." – T.S. Eliot
3. "It's Wednesday. You're halfway to the weekend!" – Anonymous
4. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt
5. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." – Eleanor Roosevelt
6. "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
7. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman
8. "Positive anything is better than negative nothing." – Elbert Hubbard
9. "The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down." – Stephen Richards
10. "Happiness is not by chance, but by choice." – Jim Rohn
11. "Choose to be optimistic, it feels better." – Dalai Lama
12. "Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart." – Roy T. Bennett
13. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." – Oprah Winfrey
14. "Let your smile change the world, but don't let the world change your smile." – Anonymous
15. "Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." – Marcus Aurelius
16. "When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love." – Marcus Aurelius
17. "The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on." – Charles Dickens
18. "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." – Zig Ziglar
19. "Your positivity can become a castle around you which will protect you from the arrow of negativity." – Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu
20. "You're off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way." – Dr. Seuss
21. "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results." – Willie Nelson
22. "Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day." – Alice Morse Earle
23. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." – Helen Keller
24. "There isn’t anything that I cannot be or do or have." – Abraham Hicks
25. "Thinking positive isn’t about expecting the best to happen every time, but accepting that whatever happens is the best for this moment." – Anonymous

Humor to Lighten Your Load

1. "It’s not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It’s that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where everyday are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make everyday a play-day…" – James A. Murphy
2. "They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday." – Robert A. Heinlein
3. "Happy Hump Day! Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…" – Dory, Finding Nemo
4. "I can resist anything except temptation." – Oscar Wilde
5. "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." – Dalai Lama
6. "I am on a seafood diet. I see food, and I eat it." – Anonymous
7. "I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right." – Anonymous
8. "Why do they call it 'rush hour' when nothing moves?" – Robin Williams
9. "Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?" – Phyllis Diller
10. "Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." – Jim Carrey
11. "Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese." – Billie Burke
12. "Inside me, there’s a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes." – Bob Thaves
13. "Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth." – Anonymous
14. "A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory." – Mark Twain
15. "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." – Groucho Marx
16. "I'm on a whiskey diet. I've lost three days already." – Tommy Cooper
17. "The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." – Will Rogers
18. "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research." – Steven Wright
19. "I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done." – Steven Wright
20. "Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it." – Anonymous
21. "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine." – Anonymous
22. "I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong." – Benjamin Franklin
23. "If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you." – Steven Wright
24. "I’m reading a book on anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down." – Anonymous
25. "I'm not lazy, I'm just on energy-saving mode." – Anonymous

Reflection and Growth

1. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs
2. "Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions." – Albert Einstein
3. "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking." – William Butler Yeats
4. "The only journey is the one within." – Rainer Maria Rilke
5. "Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." – George Bernard Shaw
6. "Change is the end result of all true learning." – Leo Buscaglia
7. "We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience." – John Dewey
8. "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." – Alan Watts
9. "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." – Plutarch
10. "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." – Benjamin Franklin
11. "Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own." – Bruce Lee
12. "You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." – Jim Rohn
13. "The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates
14. "Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth." – John C. Maxwell
15. "Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." – Jim Rohn
16. "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." – Winston Churchill
17. "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." – Buddha
18. "Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig." – Marcus Aurelius
19. "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." – Charles Dickens
20. "In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln
21. "The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness." – Lao Tzu
22. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." – Thomas Carlyle
23. "Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection." – Mark Twain
24. "Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable." – Twyla Tharp
25. "The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." – Muhammad Ali

Encouragement to Share with Others

1. "We rise by lifting others." – Robert Ingersoll
2. "Kindness is giving hope to those who think they are all alone in this world." – Anonymous
3. "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." – Mother Teresa
4. "You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." – Brian Tracy
5. "A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success." – Anonymous
6. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs
7. "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." – Albert Einstein
8. "It always seems impossible until it’s done." – Nelson Mandela
9. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt
10. "We rise by lifting others." – Robert Ingersoll
11. "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe
12. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James
13. "Encouragement is like oxygen to the soul; it keeps us going." – Anonymous
14. "Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted." – Christine Caine
15. "Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." – Nido Qubein
16. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis
17. "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." – Dalai Lama
18. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
19. "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." – Babe Ruth
20. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
21. "Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs." – Zig Ziglar
22. "Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson
23. "No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel." – Demi Lovato
24. "The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Abraham Lincoln
25. "Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." – Martin Luther King Jr.

Inspirational Wisdom from Around the World

1. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA)
2. "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." – Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA)
3. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." – Lao Tzu (China)
4. "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." – Zig Ziglar (USA)
5. "In a gentle way, you can shake the world." – Mahatma Gandhi (India)
6. "The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." – Tony Robbins (USA)
7. "He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened." – Lao Tzu (China)
8. "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." – African Proverb
9. "Fall seven times, stand up eight." – Japanese Proverb
10. "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." – Maya Angelou (USA)
11. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." – Confucius (China)
12. "When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps." – John Lennon (UK)
13. "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." – Japanese Proverb
14. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." – Oprah Winfrey (USA)
15. "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." – Ralph Waldo Emerson (USA)
16. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." – Mahatma Gandhi (India)
17. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi (India)
18. "Hope is not a strategy, but it is a starting point." – Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
19. "Learning never exhausts the mind." – Leonardo da Vinci (Italy)
20. "A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it." – Chinese Proverb
21. "Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." – Maori Proverb
22. "Not all those who wander are lost." – J.R.R. Tolkien (UK)
23. "The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them." – D. H. Lawrence (UK)
24. "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." – Buddha (Nepal)
25. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt (USA)

How to Use These Wednesday Quotes

To make the most of these Wednesday quotes and infuse your midweek with inspiration, here are a few practical ways to incorporate them into your routine:

1. Morning Motivation: Begin your day by selecting a quote or two that resonates with you. Read them out loud to set a positive tone for the day. This simple act can elevate your mindset and prepare you to face any challenges with renewed energy and optimism.

2. Journal Reflection: Use these quotes as journal prompts. Write down a quote each day and reflect on how it applies to your life in a journal such as Journey. Consider what actions you can take to embrace its message and create a personal connection with the wisdom it offers.

5. Midday Break: Take a moment during your lunch break or afternoon lull to read a quote and recharge. Use it as a mental reset to keep your productivity and spirits high during the latter half of the day.

6. Evening Reflection: At the end of the day, revisit a quote and think about how it influenced your actions or thoughts. Consider which quotes you’d like to carry into the rest of the week and how they can continue to guide your journey.

Whether you're looking for a midweek pick-me-up or a way to spread some positivity and gratitude, Wednesday quotes can serve as a powerful reminder that every day is a new opportunity to create the life you want. As we continue our journey through the week, let these words of wisdom inspire you to overcome obstacles, embrace joy, be grateful and chase your dreams.

So, here’s to a wonderful Wednesday filled with endless possibilities and happy moments!