Quotes

This list contains more than 200 super awesome best positive quotes to inspire you. Enjoy!

Do not wish for an easy life. Wish for the strength to endure a difficult one. – Bruce Lee

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. – Alan Watts

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – Buddha

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. – Buddha

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. – Buddha

Do not wish for an easy life. Wish for the strength to endure a difficult one. – Bruce Lee

One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. – Henry Miller

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. – John F. Kennedy

Dude, suckin’ at something is the first step to being sorta good at something. – Jake, Adventure Time

A smile is a language everyone should learn how to speak. – Kim Kardashian

Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger. – Keanu Reeves

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. – Lyndon B. Johnson

If you really believe in what you’re doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up. – Laurie Notaro

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. – Lucille Bal

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. – Marilyn Monroe

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. – Mother Teresa

I’m different than other people. I’m never sad. I make my life happy through discipline. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I eat lots of fiber. Every day I take a walk in the park to think about my balance. I’ve been a chef, a fashion designer, a painter, and now I’m learning martial arts. I do Tai Chi in the park every morning. It helps give me energy for my painting. I have already learned forty-two moves. I’m ahead of everyone. I’m almost eighty years old, but all the women in my group think I’m in my fifties. – New York citizen

Life is supposed to be fun! When you’re having fun, you feel great and you receive great things! Having fun brings the life you want, and taking things too seriously brings a life you have to take seriously. – Rhonda Byrne

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. – Rumi

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. – Rumi

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. – Rumi

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. – Rumi

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. – Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn.

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried. – Stephen McCran

Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not going to do things in my life because of fear. – Sara Blakely

You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a Polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years .- Sara Blakely

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it. – Steve Jobs

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new. – Unknow

The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one? – Steve Schulte

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours. – Tom Hopkins

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. – Zig Ziglar

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. – John Wooden

We can’t escape pain; we can’t escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent, or we can fight, persevere, and create a life worth living, a noble life. Pain is a fact; our evaluation of it is a choice. – Jacob Held

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. – Joseph Sugarman

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. – Oprah Winfrey

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow. – Seth Godin

I have for many years endeavored to make this vital truth clear; and still people marvel when I tell them that I am happy. They imagine that my limitations weigh heavily upon my spirit, and chain me to the rock of despair. Yet, it seems to me, happiness has very little to do with the senses. If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand, if we believe that the earth is ours, and that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields because the Artist in our souls glorifies creation. Surely, it gives dignity to life to believe that we are born into this world for noble ends, and that we have a higher destiny than can be accomplished within the narrow limits of this physical life. – Helen Keller

Nothing truly stops you.  Nothing truly holds you back.  For your own will is always within your control.  Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn’t be affected by an incident unless you let it. – Epictetus

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. – Anthony Robbins

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. – Groucho Marx

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. – Mahatma Gandhi

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail. – Og Mandino

Life is about making an impact, not making an income. – Kevin Kruse

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.  – Robert Frost

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. – Amelia Earhart

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. – W. Clement Stone

Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. – Kevin Kruse

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon

We become what we think about. – Earl Nightingale

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover. – Mark Twain

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. – Charles Swindoll

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker

The mind is everything. What you think you become.  – Buddha

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb

An unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi

Dream big and dare to fail. – Norman Vaughan

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. – Stephen Covey

Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Christopher Columbus

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Gandhi

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best revenge is massive success. – Frank Sinatra

Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Dr. Robert Schuller

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin

If you hear a voice within you say „you cannot paint”, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. – Aristotle

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow. – Helen Keller

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. – Jesus

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined. – Henry David Thoreau

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. – Erma Bombeck

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.  – Booker T. Washington

There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. –  Ancient Indian Proverb

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair

The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato

Teach thy tongue to say, „I do not know”, and thous shalt progress. – Maimonides

Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe

The dreamers are the saviors of the world. – James Allen

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau

Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated. – Russell Warren

Someday is not a day of the week. – Denise Brennan-Nelson

There are no short cuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. – John Lennon

Fall seven times and stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller

Make each day your masterpiece. – John Wooden

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. – Confucius

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – Maya Angelou

Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama

The best dreams happen when you’re awake. – Cherie Gilderbloom

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. – Sheryl Sandberg

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. – Aristotle

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. – Latin Proverb

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach

You can’t fall if you don’t climb.  But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. – Unknown

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. – Marie Curie

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. – Elbert Hubbard

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. – Arthur Christopher Benson

If you can’t outplay them, outwork them. – Ben Hogan

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. –  Alan Kay

Champions keep playing until they get it right. – Billie Jean King

Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. – Christopher Reeve

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. – Booker T. Washington

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. – Leonardo da Vinci

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.  – Tim Ferriss

Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. – Jamie Paolinetti

Every moment is a fresh beginning. – T.S. Eliot

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. – Erica Jong

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. – Bob Dylan

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. – Benjamin Franklin

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. –  Albert Einstein

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. – John Madden

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. – Arnold Palmer

If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough. – Mario Andretti

Action is the foundational key to all success – Pablo Picasso

I will go anywhere as long as it is forward. – David Livingston

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. – Charles Kettering

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. – Chinese Proverb

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. – Roger Staubach

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.  – Teddy Roosevelt

Don’t count the days, make the days count. – Muhammad Ali

You become what you believe. – Oprah Winfrey

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. – Roger Staubach

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. – Vincent van Gogh

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Jimmy Johnson

Dream big and dare to fail. – Norman Vaughan

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Gandhi

Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Dr. Robert Schuller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow. – Helen Keller

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. – Unknown

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.  – Ann Landers

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. – Abigail Van Buren

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. – Farrah Gray

The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself- the invisible battles inside all of us- that’s where it’s at. – Jesse Owens

Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance. – Sir Claus Moser

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. – Rosa Parks

You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might. – Henry David Thoreau

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. – Oprah Winfrey

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. – Dalai Lama

You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have. – Maya Angelou

Light tomorrow with today. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Dream big and dare to fail. – Norman Vaughan

There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley

The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost

The power of imagination makes us infinite. – John Muir

Make each day your masterpiece. – John Wooden

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. – Teddy Roosevelt

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. – Tony Robbins

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem

It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. – Mae Jemison

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. – Beverly Sills

The best dreams happen when you’re awake. – Cherie Gilderbloom

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. – Christopher Reeve

Every moment is a fresh beginning. – T.S. Eliot

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. – Charles Kettering

Don’t count the days, make the days count. – Muhammad Ali

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. – Grandma Moses

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. – Ayn Rand

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. – Mary Kay Ash

Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I’m possible! – Audrey Hepburn

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. – Zig Ziglar

Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair

A year from now you may wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

Do what you love and the money will follow. – Marsha Sinetar

The harder I work, the luckier I get. – Gary Player

You`ve got to bumble forward into the unknown. – Frank Gehry

Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. – Victor Kiam

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama

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