Words are powerful and a small dose of inspirational positive quotes is a great way to start your day on a motivational note. Good thoughts during the day can help encourage you from a depressed or low state of mood.
In this fast-paced world, every person is stressed and coping with some kind of struggle. But few words of encouragement can be very helpful for work, life, students, office, employees to perform better on a daily basis.
This list of quotes is a mix of funny, positive, inspirational, motivational, wise, uplifting, powerful for a great start of the day!
Short positive quotes to inspire you
- “To live will be an awfully big adventure.” – Peter Pan
- “Strive for progress, not perfection.”
- “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S Eliot
- “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Difficult roads lead to beautiful destinations.”
- “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
- “Be a warrior, not a worrier.”
- “Whatever you do, do it well.” – Walt Disney
- “And still, I rise.” – Maya Angelou
- “When words fail, music speaks.” – Shakespeare
- “What consumes your mind controls your life.”
- “Aspire to inspire before we expire.”
- “Reality is wrong, dreams are for real.” – Tupac
- “Strive for greatness.” – Lebron James
- “Love for all, hatred for none.” – Khalifatul Masih III
- “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
- “Change the world by being yourself.” – Amy Poehler
- “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
- “What we think, we become.” – Buddha
- “Yesterday you said tomorrow. Just do it.” – Nike
- “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
- “It hurt because it mattered.” – John Green
- “I will remember and recover, not forgive and forget.”
- “Being happy never goes out of style.” Lilly Pulitzer
- “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.” – Rumi
- “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
- “Success is a journey, not a destination.” – Ben Sweetland
- “Let the beauty of what you love to be what you do.” – Rumi
- “I have nothing to lose but something to gain.” – Eminem
- “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
- “A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world.” – Atticus
- “The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Ken Hudgins
- “All limitations are self-imposed.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain
- “You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.”
- “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- “I don’t need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it.” – Lil Wayne
- “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.” – Drake
- “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
- “Change the game, don’t let the game change you.” – Macklemore
- “Determine your priorities and focus on them.” – Eileen McDargh
- “Oh, the things you can find, if you don’t stay behind.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “Nothing lasts forever but at least we got these memories.” – J. Cole
- “Don’t you know your imperfections is a blessing?” – Kendrick Lamar
- “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.” – Kurt Cobain
- “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson
- “Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone’s life in a very positive way are better.” – Tim Howard
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow.” – Vincent van Gogh
- “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.” – Carl Rogers
- “Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
- “When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “Hate comes from intimidation, love comes from appreciation.” – Tyga
- “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
- “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
- “If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.” – Dolly Parton
- “When we are open to new possibilities, we find them. Be open and skeptical of everything.” – Todd Kashdan
- “Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.” – Jessica N. S. Yourko
- “Lay plans for something big by starting with it when small.” – Lao Tzu
- “It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb.” – Roman proverb
- “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.” – Kendrick Lamar
- “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.” – R. Brault
- “Let your unique awesomeness and positive energy inspire confidence in others.”
- “Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.” – Lou Holtz
- “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins
- “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
- “I could agree with you but then we’d both be wrong.” – Harvey Specter
- “The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.”
- “If you want the light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.” – Guy Finley
- “The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” – Charles Dickens
- “Every day may not be good… but there’s something good in every day.” – Alice Morse Earle
- “Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Francesca Reigler
- “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow.” – Robert Tew
- “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
- “Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.” – Bonnie Blair
- “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” – Zig Ziglar
- “One day the people that don’t even believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.” – Johnny Depp
- “If the world was blind how many people would you impress?” – Boonaa Mohammed
- “White is not always light and black is not always dark.” – Habeeb Akande
- “You’re braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Mine
Short positive inspirational quotes
- “You were crafted to do magical things.”
- “Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle
- “When nothing goes right, go left.”
- “Focus on your goals, not on obstacles.”
- “Turn the pain into power.”
- “There is beauty in simplicity.”
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
- “Your best teacher is your last mistake.”
- “It’s the will, not the skill.”
- “No guts, no story.” – Chris Brady
- “What is yours will find you.”
- “Grow through what you go through.”
- “Spread love everywhere you go.” ―Mother Teresa
- “When you focus on the good, the good gets better.”
- “Positive always wins… Always.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
- “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
- “Whatever life plants you, bloom with grace.”
- “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes
- “Do not give your past the power to define your future.”
- “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “You get what you give.” – Jennifer Lopez
- “Good things happen to those who hustle.” – Anaïs Nin
- “The grass is greener where you water it.”
- “The best view comes after the hardest climb.”
- “You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
- “You have to be odd to be number one.” – Dr. Seuss
- “You never fail until you stop trying.” – Albert Einstein
- “Think positive, and positive things will happen.”
- “My life is my message.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Breathe. It’s just a bad day, not a bad life.”
- “Don’t regret the past. Just learn from it.”
- “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link
- “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
- “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.” – Henry Ford
- “Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds, will continue in others.” – Rosa Parks
- Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn
- “Life isn’t about falling it’s about getting back up every time you fall.”
- “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”
- “The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.” – Nadine Gordimer
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream meaning.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
- “It’s never too late for a new beginning in your life.” – Joyce Meyers
- “Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.” – Augustine of Hippo
- “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
- “Judging a person does not define who they are, it defines who you are.”
- “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.” – Karen Salmansohn
- “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
- “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” – E. E. Cummings
- “Little by little, day by day, what is meant for you will find its way.”
- “It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
- “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
- “Be patient with yourself. Nothing in nature blooms all year.”
- “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Les Brown
- “If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” – Buddha
- “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
- “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” – Hafez
- “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” – Carol Burnett
- “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
- “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
- “It really doesn’t matter how slow you are going as long as you do not stop.”
- “Worry less. Smile more. Be yourself. Be grateful. Be happy.”
- “The knowledge of happiness brings the knowledge of unhappiness.” – Swami Vivekananda
- “Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.”
- “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi
- “Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” – Lindsey Vonn
- “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William Jame
- “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou
- “The rain will pass. Keep your head up. Look for the rainbow.”
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller
- “Light tomorrow with today!” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Love yourself, it is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.”
- “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
- “No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” – Demi Lovato
- “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you.” – Mary Lou Retton
- “Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan
- “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
- “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” – Mandy Hale
- “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
- “The fastest road to meaning and success: choose one thing and go all-in.” – Maxime Lagacé
- “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
- “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” – William James
- “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
- “You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.” – Dr. Seuss
- “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
- “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
- “The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – James Crook
- “To succeed in life, you need three things: A wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” – Reba Mcentire
- “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
- “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
- “Life isn’t meant to be easy, it’s meant to be lived… Sometimes happy, other times rough. But with every up and down you learn lessons that make you strong.”
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “We either make ourselves miserable or make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda
- “For every reason that it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.” – Jack Canfield
- “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen
- “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai
- “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”
- “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
- “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” – Les Brown
Short positive life quotes
- “Prove them wrong.”
- “One day at a time.”
- “You matter.”
- “This too shall pass.”
- “Never ever give up.”
- “Positivity is power.”
- “You are amazing.”
- “Stay hopeful.”
- “Think positive.”
- “Stay strong.”
- “Don’t quit.”
- “Shine bright.”
- “Live. Laugh. Love.”
- “I can and I will.”
- “God has never left you.”
- “Broken crayons still color.”
- “Dream. Plan. Execute.”
- “Dream bigger. Do bigger.”
- “Be you. Do you. For you.”
- “Choose to be happy.”
- “Never stop dreaming.”
- “Happiness is an inside job.”
- “Mindset is everything.”
- “You can totally do this.”
- “Be a voice. Not an echo.”
- “Dream it. Wish it. Do it.”
- “Today I choose joy.”
- “Say yes to new adventures.”
- “The obstacle is the path.”
- “Judge me when you are perfect.”
- “Die with memories, not dreams.”
- “It’s ok to be not ok right now.”
- “There’s bravery in being soft.”
- “Kindness always comes back.”
- “Little things make big days.”
- “Remember why you started.”
- “Your only limit is your mind.”
- “Life is short. Make it sweet.”
- “Take the risk or lose the chance.”
- “Be scared and do it anyway.”
- “Trust the timing of your life.”
- “Dream without fear. Love without limits.”
- “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs
- “Everything that you are is enough.”
- “Leave no stone unturned.” – Euripides
- “Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.”
- “Keep going. Be all in.” – Bryan Hutchinson
- “Don’t feel guilty for doing what’s best for you.”
- “Positive Mind. Positive Vibes. Positive Life.”
- “No pressure, no diamonds.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.”
- “Taking care of yourself is productive.”
- “Great things never come from comfort zones.”
- “Screw it, let’s do it.” – Richard Branson
- “Your limitation—it’s only your imagination.”
- “A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.”
- “Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now.”
- “He who is brave is free.” – Seneca
- “Seek the seeker.” – Ramana Maharshi
- “The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” – George Santayana
- “Each day provides its own gifts.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.”
- “It always seems impossible until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
- “Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.”
- “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” – Christopher Reeve
- “Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Whatever you do, do with all your might.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.”
- “We are twice armed if we fight with faith.” – Plato
- “Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.” – Helena Rubinstein
- “Character like a photograph. Developing in darkness.”
- “A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.”
- “You always pass failure on the way to success.” – Mickey Rooney
- “Positivity is, to find goodness even in bad conditions.”
- “Every wall is a door.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Don’t tell people your plans. Show them your results.”
- “Live life to the fullest and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron
- “Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too.”
- “The true success is the person who invented himself.” – Al Goldstein
- “Let him that would move the world first move himself.” – Socrates
- “You can if you think you can.” – George Reeves
- “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” – Bob Marley
- “It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.” – Ellen DeGeneres
- “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.”
- “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
- “Imperfection is a form of freedom.” – Anh Ngo
- “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.”
- “The past does not equal the future.” – Tony Robbins
- “Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.”
- “Be kind to unkind people, they need it the most.”
- “No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers.” – Wolfgang Riebe
- “Success is the child of audacity.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “You are your own soulmate.” – Rupi Kaur
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