Positive Quotes to Brighten Your Life

Positive Inspirational Quotes

  • “Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
  • “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” ― Voltaire
  • “Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.” — Annette Funicello
  • “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” ― Oprah Winfrey
  • “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou
  • “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” ― Barack Obama
  • “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” — Carl Sagan
  • And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” ― Roald Dahl
  • “I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.” ― Kurt Cobain
  • “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
  • “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” ― Marilyn Monroe
  • “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life — and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” —Georgia O’Keeffe
  • “You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.” — Keira Knightley

Positive Quotes for the Day

  • “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” ― Mark Twain
  • “The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it’s all that matters.” ― Audrey Hepburn
  • “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ― Albert Camus
  • “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” — Ingrid Bergman
  • “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Sir Winston Churchill
  • “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” ― George Eliot
  • “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” — Edith Wharton
  • “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” ― John Lennon
  • “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” — Albert Einstein
  • “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” ― John A. Shedd
  • “Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro
  • “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” ― Agatha Christie
  • “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

Positive Good Morning Quotes

  • “Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
  • “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” — Wayne Huizenga
  • “What’s the good of living if you don’t try a few things?” ― Charles M. Schulz
  • “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for.” — Jimmy Stewart
  • “Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.” — James Clear
  • “Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” — Judy Garland
  • “You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you.” — Josephine Baker
  • “May you live every day of your life.” ― Jonathan Swift
  • “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
  • “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” ― Lewis Carroll
  • “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
  • “I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.” ― Simon and Garfunkel
  • “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

Positive Quotes for Work

  • “I never dreamt of success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder
  • “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
  • “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” — Florence Nightingale
  • “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” — Jimmy Johnson
  • “If you look around the room, and you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” — Lorne Michaels
  • “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs
  • “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
  • “Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.” — James Taylor
  • “All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long.” — Steven Spielberg
  • “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
  • “Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein
  • “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
  • “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglas
  • “Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” — Stephen Sondheim
  • “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work.” — Stephen King
  • “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” — Rosalynn Carter
  • “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” — Michael Jordan
  • “Anything in life worth having is worth working for.” — Andrew Carnegie
  • “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” — Marie Curie
  • “Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.” — Lucille Ball
  • Motivational Positive Quotes
  • “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” — Audrey Hepburn
  • “Be persistent and never give up hope.” — George Lucas
  • “It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don’t.” — Ricky Gervais
  • “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” ― Norman Vincent Peale
  • “I hate that word: lucky. It cheapens a lot of hard work.” — Peter Dinklage
  • “Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.” — Diana Ross
  • “You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.” — Henry David Thoreau
  • “There is no security on the Earth, there is only opportunity.” — Douglas MacArthur
  • “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” — Alexander Graham Bell
  • “Anything in life worth having is worth working for.” — Andrew Carnegie
  • “If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” — Tom Hanks
  • “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ― Alice Walker
  • “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead
  • “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw
  • “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” ― Ayn Rand
  • “I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It’s just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.” — Reese Witherspoon
  • “Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work.” — Margot Robbie
  • “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” ― Audrey Hepburn
  • “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ― Thomas A. Edison
  • “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” —Wayne Dyer
  • “The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.” ― Roy T. Bennett

Short Positive Quotes

  • “The best way out is through.” — Robert Frost
  • “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” ― Walt Disney
  • “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” ― Elvis Presley
  • “Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln
  • “Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.” — Helen Keller
  • “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” — Sally Field
  • “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde
  • “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
  • “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” — Mary Louise Alcott
  • “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin
  • “The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.” — H.G. Wells
  • “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” — Robin Sharma
  • “The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.” — Octavia Spencer
  • “I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.” — Joan Didion