In moments of uncertainty or difficulty, we often seek assurance that things will turn out fine.
Without delving into toxic positivity, we can pursue gentle reminders that “everything will be OK” — providing a grounding force in the whirlwind of life’s ups and downs.
At Good Good Good, we offer reminders that there are reasons to be hopeful and optimistic through our coverage of meaningful good news. And we also create resources like this guide to reasons why everything will be ok.
And now, we’ve compiled a collection of quotes to offer you the reassurance and encouragement that everything will be OK.
These kinds of affirmations have been explored and affirmed by various thinkers, writers, and ordinary people who have faced adversity and emerged stronger over the course of years.
Whether you’re dealing with specific hardships or feeling overwhelmed by the state of the world, these quotes serve as a reminder of human resilience and the perpetual potential for positive change.
As you read on, may you find the strength and hope you need for the journey ahead:
The Best Quotes To Remind Us That Everything Will Be OK
Famous Quotes
“To be optimistic is to assume things will work out. To be hopeful is to realize things can work out if you work at them. Hope requires responsibility and agency; optimism relieves us of both. In rooting for your sports team, choose optimism. In rooting for democracy, choose hope.”
— Eric Liu
“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
— Maya Angelou
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
— John Lennon
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
— Robert Frost
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
“You have to learn that if you start good, everything will be okay.”
— Ruben Studdard
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
— C.S. Lewis
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise again.”
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.”
— Isabel Allende
Inspirational Quotes
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
— Pablo Neruda
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
— Christian D. Larson
“Always remember: if you’re going through hell, keep going.”
— Winston Churchill
“Even in the worst of situations — even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you — as long as you have hope, everything can get better.”
— Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell
“If you’re not getting it perfect, life is still going to go around. The world still turns. It’s going to be ok. Tomorrow is a new day.”
— Katy Mixon
“Live the questions now. And then gradually but most assuredly, without you even noticing it, you will live your way into the answers.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Short Quotes
“Always remember, nothing is as bad as it seems.”
— Helen Fielding
“Sometimes life gets weird. Hang in there. It gets better.”
— Tanner Patrick
“Everything will be okay. Good things last, and the bad things will fade away. So, go find your good.”
— Jessica Park
“Morning will come, it has no choice.”
— Marty Rubin
“You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.”
— Ian Somerhalder
“Even if it’s not going to be what you imagined, it’ll be just as good.”
— Maggie Stiefvater
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
— Duke Ellington
“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.”
— Voltaire
“No pressure, no diamonds.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.”
— Emory Austin
More Quotes & Captions
“If something does go wrong, here is my advice, keep calm and carry on, and eventually everything will fall back in place.”
— Maira Kalman
“There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.”
— Swami Sivananda
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
— Barack Obama
“The fact that we have made progress is a proof point that progress is possible to make. And that’s exciting. That means you can do it. Whether or not you’re optimistic or pessimistic is beside the point. The point is that it’s possible.”
— Ezra Klein, in conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson
“Don’t give up when dark times come. The more storms you face in life, the stronger you’ll be. Hold on. Your greater is coming.”
— Germany Kent
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
— Seneca
“She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”
— Elizabeth Edwards
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
— A. A. Milne, Winnie-The-Pooh
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Every problem has a solution. There’s always a way to fix something. So rest assured, all the right solutions will become known to you soon.”
— Steven Wolf
“Everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that’s the only time everything will be okay. All you have to do is stop expecting the mind to fix what’s wrong inside of you.”
— Michael A. Singer
