Wednesday is often referred to as 'hump day', meaning the middle of the work week, when we begin to feel the weight of the tasks, duties, and challenges we must face. Yet, it is also a day that signifies that the weekend is near, giving us a push to keep going. Inspirational Wednesday quotes can provide the motivation and encouragement needed to make it through the rest of the week with positivity, strength, and a refreshed mind. Here, we present ten different themes of Wednesday quotes, each with twelve carefully selected motivational messages to lift your spirits and carry you through to the weekend.
Wednesday Motivation Quotes
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." — Theodore Roosevelt
"Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week!" — Lee Fox Williams
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you." — Anonymous
"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out." — Robert Collier
"Believe you can and you’re halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt
"Make today so awesome yesterday gets jealous." — Anonymous
"Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time." — Anonymous
"Do something today that your future self will thank you for." — Anonymous
"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations." — Zig Ziglar
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." — Ralph Marston
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." — Arthur Ashe
Positive Wednesday Quotes
"Every day is a new chance to change your life." — Anonymous
"Smile and let everyone know that today, you’re a lot stronger than you were yesterday." — Anonymous
"Positive anything is better than negative nothing." — Elbert Hubbard
"A champion is defined not by their wins, but by how they can recover when they fall." — Serena Williams
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same." — Francesca Reigler
"Stay positive. Better days are on their way." — Anonymous
"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
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." — Peter Drucker
"Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder." — Anonymous
"Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward." — Victor Kiam
Empowerment Wednesday Quotes
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." — C.S. Lewis
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." — Christian D. Larson
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." — Oprah Winfrey
"You are capable of amazing things." — Anonymous
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." — Henry David Thoreau
"Your limitation—it’s only your imagination." — Tony Robbins
"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise." — Anonymous
"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." — Sam Levenson
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." — Amelia Earhart
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." — William James
"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." — Roy T. Bennett
Wednesday Wellness Quotes
"Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live." — Jim Rohn
"A healthy outside starts from the inside." — Robert Urich
"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship." — Buddha
"The groundwork of all happiness is good health." — Leigh Hunt
"Happiness is the highest form of health." — Dalai Lama
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health." — Dalai Lama
"Your body hears everything your mind says." — Naomi Judd
"The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure." — Tibetan Proverb
"A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier." — Tom Stoppard
"To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." — Buddha
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything." — Arabian Proverb
Wednesday Work Quotes
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." — Confucius
"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
"Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do." — Unknown
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work." — Steve Jobs
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." — Aristotle
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." — Steve Jobs
"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." — Sam Levenson
"Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit." — Helena Rubinstein
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." — Albert Einstein
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." — Thomas Edison
"The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it." — Unknown
"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile." — Gary Ryan Blair
Wednesday Positivity Quotes
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." — Helen Keller
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." — Anthony J. D'Angelo
"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on." — Charles Dickens
"It’s a good day to be happy." — Unknown
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." — John Wooden
"Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." — Joseph Campbell
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters." — Audrey Hepburn
"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." — Mark Twain
"Stop being afraid of what can go wrong and start being excited about what can go right." — Tony Robbins
"The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down." — Stephen Richards
"Every day may not be good... but there’s something good in every day." — Alice Morse Earle
Wednesday Wisdom Quotes
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." — Socrates
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." — Seneca
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked." — Mark Twain
"The only thing we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom." — Leo Tolstoy
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." — Jimi Hendrix
"It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." — Epictetus
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." — Bruce Lee
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wisdom begins in wonder." — Socrates
"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom." — Leo Tolstoy
"Turn your wounds into wisdom." — Oprah Winfrey
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." — Aristotle
Midweek Quotes
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Wednesday: Halfway to the weekend! Enjoy your day!" — Unknown
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." — Walt Whitman
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." — Mark Twain
"Believe you can and you’re halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." — Vince Lombardi
"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." — Charles Kingsleigh
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today." — Will Rogers
"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." — Zig Ziglar
"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try." — John F. Kennedy
"You get what you give." — Jennifer Lopez
"It’s Wednesday: be awesome!" — Unknown
Wednesday Hope Quotes
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." — Desmond Tutu
"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear." — Suzanne Collins
"In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer." — Albert Camus
"Once you choose hope, anything’s possible." — Christopher Reeve
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present." — Bil Keane
"Hope is the heartbeat of the soul." — Michelle Horst
"If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining." — Guy Finley
"Hope will never be silent." — Harvey Milk
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all." — Emily Dickinson
"Where there is no vision, there is no hope." — George Washington Carver
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything." — Thomas Carlyle
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope." — Alexandre Dumas
Wednesday Gratitude Quotes
"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." — Melody Beattie
"Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity... it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." — Melody Beattie
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." — Robert Brault
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." — Henry Ward Beecher
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more." — Melody Beattie
"The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see." — Mary Davis
"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." — William Arthur Ward
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind." — Lionel Hampton
"Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul." — Amy Collette
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others." — Cicero
"Gratitude is the open door to abundance." — Anonymous
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." — Marcel Proust
Final words
In the hustle and bustle of our weekly routines, it can sometimes feel challenging to find the motivation to keep going, especially by midweek. Wednesday quotes offer a refreshing breath of perspective and positivity, whether you're seeking motivation, positivity, empowerment, or wisdom. They remind us that no matter the obstacles we face or the fatigue we may feel, each new day provides an opportunity to grow, transform, and continue moving forward toward our dreams and goals. Hold on to these midweek pearls of wisdom to get through the rest of your week with strength and optimism. Let every Wednesday be a stepping stone to a fulfilling and accomplished week!
