200 Positive Quotes about Life, Sayings on Life to Motivate You
Positive Quotes about Life
“Positivity always wins…Always.” —Gary Vaynerchuk
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” —Christopher Reeve
“Small steps motivate. Big steps overwhelm.” —Maxime Lagacé
“Being positive is a sign of intelligence.” —Maxime Lagacé
“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” —Elbert Hubbard
“Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life.” —Charlie Brown
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” —Robert Schuller
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou
“A little progress each day adds up to big results.” —Unknown
“If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles.” —Widad Akrawi
“The first step is you have to say that you can.” —Will Smith
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” —Duke Ellington
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.” —Oprah Winfrey
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” —Stephen King
“The most important thing is to look ahead. The past is your anchor.” —Maxime Lagacé
“I am thankful to all who said no to me. It is because of them that I’m doing it myself.” —Albert Einstein
Best Positive Life Quotes
“Miracles happen to those who believe in them.” —Bernhard Berenson
“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.” —H. Jackson Brown
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” —Rumi
“One small positive thought can change your whole day.” —Zig Ziglar
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.” —Richard Wagner
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” —Les Brown
“You are joy, looking for a way to express.” —Esther Hicks
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.” —Swami Vivekananda
“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.” —John F. Kennedy
“There isn’t anything that I cannot be or do or have.” —Abraham Hicks
“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.” —Jewish proverb
“How high you fly is derived from how big you think.” —Robin Sharma
“I have decided to be happy, because it’s good for my health.” —Voltaire
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” —Kenji Miyazawa
“Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.” —Joe Paterno
“There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.” —C. S. Lewis
“Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.” —Billy Bowerman
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” —Anthony J. D’Angelo
“The less you respond to negative people, the more positive your life will become.” —Paulo Coelho
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.” —Washington Irving
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” —Epictetus
“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand
“In the end, everything will be okay. If it’s not okay, it’s not yet the end.” —Fernando Sabino
“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.” —Horace
“Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.” —Mike Dolan
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” —Mary Lou Retton
“Staying positive doesn’t mean you have to be happy all the time. It means that even on the hard days you know better ones are coming.” —Unknown
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” —Dale Carnegie
Short Positive Life Quotes
“Create explosive confidence.” —Robin Sharma
“Everyday is a second chance.” —Unknown
“Stay positive; stay hopeful.” —Joel Osteen
“Light tomorrow with today.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Walk slowly but never walk backward.” —Unknown
“Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.
“Miracles are born of conviction.” —Marianne Williamson
“Keep calm and keep learning.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
“Positive thoughts lead to positive results.” —Maria V. Snyder
“Turn every life situation into a positive one.” —Rhonda Byrne
“There is always something to be grateful for.” —Rhonda Byrne
“If I persist long enough I will win.” —Og Mandino
“The most important thing is to stay positive.” —Saku Koivu
“The road to success is always under construction.” —Lily Tomlin
“I will go anywhere as long as it’s forward.” —David Livingston
“Conviction is much more powerful than ‘positive thinking’.” —The Stoic Emperor
“If you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.” —Jodi Picoult
“Life gets better when you care for the right things.” —Maxime Lagacé
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” —Dr. Seuss
“On the other side of the clouds is a bright blue sky.” —Unknown
“One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now.” —Caroline Webb
“Keep a smile on your face. Keep a spring in your step.” —Joel Osteen
Positive Inspirational Quotes about Life
“You get what you give.” —Jennifer Lopez
“Spread love everywhere you go.” —Mother Teresa
“Limit your “always” and your “nevers.” —Amy Poehler
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“You are enough just as you are.” —Meghan Markle
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” —Jim Rohn
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible.” —Audrey Hepburn
“Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” —Napoleon Hill
“Motivation comes from working on things we care about.” —Sheryl Sandberg
“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” —E. E. Cummings
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” —Hafez
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James
“You do not find the happy life. You make it.” —Camilla Eyring Kimball
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” —Ella Fitzgerald
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” —Maya Angelou
“With the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything.” —Reese Witherspoon
“Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” —Hazrat Inayat Khan
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” —John Barrymore
“Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” —Lindsey Vonn
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler
“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.” —Oprah Winfrey
“Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.” —Quentin Blake
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” —Robin Williams
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” —Walt Whitman
“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” —Carol Burnett
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein
“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” —Malala Yousafzai
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” —Helen Keller
“No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” —Demi Lovato
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” —Dr. Seuss
“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” —Deep Roy
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill
“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” —Mae Jemison
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
“A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” —Serena Williams
“Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.” —Nicole Kidman
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” —Zig Ziglar
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” —Jimmy Dean
“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” —Mandy Hale
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” —Roald Dahl
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” —Joseph Campbell
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” —Ella Fitzgerald
Famous Positive Life Quotes
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” —Colin Powell
“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” —Elbert Hubbard
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” —Joyce Meyer
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.” —Helen Keller
“It’s actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It’s cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.” —Tom DeLonge
“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.” —Robert H. Schuller
“Having the positive belief that it will all be OK just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.” —Natalie Massenet
“When the negative thoughts come—and they will; they come to all of us—it’s not enough to just not dwell on it…. You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.” —Joel Osteen
Happy Positive Life Quotes
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” —Dalai Lama
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” —Omar Khayyam
“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.” —George Bernard Shaw
“It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” —Jane Fonda
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” —Albert Einstein
“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
“I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.” —George Clooney
Positive Funny Quotes about Life
“Don’t give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping!”
“Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.”
“Smile…it will either warm their heart or piss them off… either way you win!”
“Life doesn’t have any hands, but it can sure give you a slap sometimes.”
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.”
“Just because you are right, does not mean, I am wrong. You just haven’t seen life from my side.”
“I am thankful for those difficult people in my life, they have shown me exactly who I do not want to be.”
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” —Herm Albright
Live a Positive Life Quotes
“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.” —Tony Robbins
“Live as if your prayers are to be answered.” —Unknown
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” —Dalai Lama
“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.” —George Bernard Shaw
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” —Albert Einstein
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” —William James
“Each person must live their life as a model for others.” —Rosa Parks
“Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” —Matt Cameron
“Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.” —Joyce Meyer
“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” —William James
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” —William James
Quotes On Positive Attitude Towards Life
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” —Winston Churchill
“If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude about it. Don’t complain.” —Maya Angelou
“The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self-confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” —William James
“A positive attitude can really make dreams come true—it did for me.” —David Bailey
“Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.” —Lou Holtz
“A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.” —Wade Boggs
“There is little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” —W. Clement Stone
Positive Mind Positive Vibes Positive Life Quotes
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.” —William James
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” —Helen Keller
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” —Zig Ziglar
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” —Willie Nelson
“In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.” —Dalai Lama
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” —Lyndon B. Johnson
“I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.” —Roger Federer
“In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” —Les Brown
“You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.” —Deepak Chopra
“The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.” —Lee lacocca
“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.” —Walt Disney
“Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.” —Harvey Mackay
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so let us all be thankful.” —Buddha
Beautiful Positive Life Quotes
“The best is yet to be.” —Robert Browning
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” —Milton Berle
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” —14th Dalai Lama
“That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.” —Michael Jordan
“Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.” —Jim Rohn
“Even though you’re fed up, you gotta keep your head up.” —Tupac Shakur
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” —Abraham Lincoln
“It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.” —Confucius
“Remember: Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.” —Rocky Balboa
“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” —Winston Churchill
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” —Marcus Aurelius
“All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” —Charlie Brown
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” —Oscar Wilde
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.” —Helen Keller
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” —Abraham Lincoln
“There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.” —Hillary Clinton
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” —Thomas Edison
“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” —Richard M. Nixon
“If you focus narrowly on the problem as you see it, you might well lose hope, but if you look at it from a wider perspective, it’s easier to be more positive.” —14 Dalai Lama
“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.” —Thomas A. Edison
Motivational Positive Life Quotes
“Done is better than perfect.” —Sheryl Sandberg
“Happiness is a warm puppy.” —Charles M. Schulz
“Delete the negative; accentuate the positive.” —Donna Karan
“Lead from the heart, not the head.” —Princess Diana
“Life is a series of baby steps.” —Hoda Kotb
“When you think positive, good things happen.” —Matt Kemp
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” —Marthe Troly-Curtin
“Say yes, and you’ll figure it out afterward.” —Tina Fey
“Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.” —Mandy Moore
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.” —Mother Teresa
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” —Dolly Parton
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” —Jonathan Safran Foer
“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” —Marcus Aurelius
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” —W.P. Kinsella
“It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.” —Ellen DeGeneres
“Any upward movement for one of us is upward movement for all.” —Octavia Spencer
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” —Charlotte Brontë
“Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.” —Helen Keller
“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no way to be perfect and no fun in being perfect.” —Alicia Keys
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” —Abraham Lincoln
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” —John Lennon
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” —Orhan Parnuk
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” —Mark Twain
“I just think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful.” —Drew Barrymore
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” —Bertrand Russell
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.” —Roy T. Bennett
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” —Marcel Proust
Positive Life Sayings
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S Eliot
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“All good things come to those who wait.” —Paullina Simons
“I will go anywhere as long as it’s forward.” —David Livingston
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” —Lao Tzu
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” —Henry Ford
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” —D. H. Lawrence
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
“Life does not owe you anything because life has already given you everything.” —Ralph Marston
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” —Joshua J. Marine
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen Covey
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” —Beverly Sills
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” —Gerard Way
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” —Jimmy Dean
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” —Albert Einstein
“The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” —Les Brown
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” —Carl Bard
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.” —Mark Twain