Positive and Uplifting Quotes to Brighten Your Day
Are you in need of some positivity and motivation to kickstart your day on a high note? Look no further! Here are 160 timeless and inspiring quotes about life that will uplift your spirits and add a dose of optimism to your day.
Positive Quotes for Life (and For Living It Fully)
1. “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others.” – Nelson Mandela
2. “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.” – Taylor Swift
3. “The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell
4. “Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.” – Nicole Kidman
5. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir
6. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
7. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
8. “Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.” – Audre Lorde
9. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie
10. “Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
11. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
12. “Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world’s greatest need.” – Frederick Buechner
13. “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson
14. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” – Dalai Lama
15. “Life is in ourselves and not in the external.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
16. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
17. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
18. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
19. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” – Oscar Wilde
20. “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” – Ernest Holmes
21. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
22. “Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
23. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” – Jack London
24. “We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.” – Lauryn Hill
25. “Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.” – Rebecca West
26. “Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.” – Jose Ortega y Gasset
27. “The whole point is to live life and be — to use all the colors in the crayon box.” – RuPaul
Positive Quotes for Starting Your Day and Having a Good Morning
28. “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
29. “I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.” – Paul Henderson
30. “Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
31. “The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.” – Henry Ward Beecher
32. “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” – Henry David Thoreau
33. “Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days – which inevitably create a successful life.” – Hal Elrod
34. “Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.” – Lemony Snicket
35. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” – Dalai Lama
36. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
37. “You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.” – Billy Wilder
38. “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.” – Rumi
39. “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.” – Groucho Marx
40. “Every day brings new choices.” – Martha Beck
41. “Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.” – Mark Twain
42. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
43. “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” – Buddha
44. “Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” – Yoko Ono
45. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
46. “My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” – Cary Grant
47. “My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.” – Mavis Staples
48. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
49. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France
50. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer
51. “If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” – Les Brown
52. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
53. “Great acts are made up of small deeds.” – Lao Tzu
54. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Horace Lorimer
55. “Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.” – Dale Carnegie
Positive Quotes for Motivation and Work
56. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” – Dale Carnegie
57. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” – Olin Miller
58. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
59. “Success isn’t always about ‘Greatness’, it’s about consistency. Consistent, hard work gains success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
60. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
61. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
62. “If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee
63. “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus
64. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
65. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell
66. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
67. “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.” – David Allen
68. “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
69. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins
70. “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” – Stephen Richards
71. “Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.” – Lou Holtz
72. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell
73. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” – W.P. Kinsella
74. “If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau
75. “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
76. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” – Seth Godin
77. “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
78. “Figure out who are you separate from your family, and the man or woman you’re in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone.” – Angelina Jolie
79. “Children – and adults – who have a growth mindset are much more successful than those who have a fixed mindset about themselves and the world.” – Jane Goodall
80. “Think of many things; do one.” – Portuguese proverb
81. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
Positive Quotes for Life and Happiness
82. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
83. “It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe
84. “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.” – Mark Twain
85. “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – E. M. Forster
86. “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” – Carl Jung
87. “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” – Soren Kierkegaard
88. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
89. “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron
90. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
91. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
92. “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” – Orhan Parnuk
93. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
94. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
95. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
96. “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank
97. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” – Ayn Rand
98. “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” – Rita Mae Brown
99. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
100. “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” – Guillaume Apollinaire
101. “All happiness depends on courage and work.” – Honoré de Balzac
102. “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” – Louisa May Alcott
103. “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” – Dalai Lama
104. “I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth
105. “The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.” – George Eliot
106. “When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude.” – Cara Delevingne
107. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin
108. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
Positive Quotes About Life to Brighten Your Day
109. “Light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
110. “Lead from the heart, not the head.” – Princess Diana
111. “Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.” – Jim Thompson
112. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl
113. “Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.” – Mandy Moore
114. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
115. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” – John Muir
116. “Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink.” – Lilly Pulitzer
117. “I dwell in possibility.” – Emily Dickinson
118. “Keep your face to the sunshine, keep negativity out and only let positive energy in.” – Rip Miller
119. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
120. “As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
121. “When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” – Wilma Rudolph
122. “Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.” – Roy T. Bennett
123. “Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.” – Rick Steves
124. “Confidence isn’t optimism or pessimism, and it’s not a character attribute. It’s the expectation of a positive outcome.” – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
125. “Only when we’re drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick.” – Amanda Gorman
126. “No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.” – Lupita Nyong’o
127. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
128. “When life hands you a difficult situation where you feel undervalued and disrespected, be bold and brave enough to know your worth.” – Yai Vargas
129. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises; and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” – Charles Dickens
130. “Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg
131. “Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!” – Donna Karan
132. “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” – Will Smith
133. “I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.” – Maya Angelou
134. “Say yes, and you’ll figure it out afterward.” – Tina Fey
135. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton
Short Positive Quotes for Life
136. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
137. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
138. “To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.” – Jerry Seinfeld
139. “Think and wonder. Wonder and think.” – Dr. Seuss
140. “What we think, we become.” – Buddha
141. “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” – Anne Frank
142. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
143. “Most people are nice when you finally see them.” – Harper Lee
144. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
145. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Virginia Woolf
146. “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – E. E. Cummings
147. “Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?” – Bob Marley
148. “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” – Jon Bon Jovi
149. “Life itself is the proper binge.” – Julia Child
150. “People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise.” – Bill Murray
151. “I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.” – Emile Zola
152. “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” – Frank Zappa
153. “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
154. “If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person.” – Bill Clinton
