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Best Positive Quotes to Uplift Your Spirits

These positive quotes are for everyone who could use a little reason to smile. Who couldn’t use a little pick-me-up now and then?

Positivity can take you to places where other qualities cannot. No matter how talented you are, you cannot achieve anything big without having a positive attitude.

It may be the only quality you will require to succeed in your pursuits, life, and relationships. If you stayed positive with everything, you could lead the life of your dreams.

These sayings provide the best way to lead a happy and successful life. They are inspirational quotes to live by. Read them often, get inspired by the words of great men and women, and share them with your loved ones and friends.

Best Positive Quotes.

Positivity Quotes

1.) I see light at the end of the tunnel.
Walt Whitman Rostow

2.) Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Goethe

3.) A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
Joan Lunden

4.) The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Winston Churchill

5.) In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.
Les Brown

Good Positive Quotes.

Stay Positive Quotes

6.) Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Mary Lou Retton (See more quotes and kindheartedness)

7.) Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson

8.) It is our non-negotiable responsibility to always stay positive, no matter what!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

9.) The most important thing is to stay positive.
Saku Koivu

10.) Work hard, stay positive, and get up early.
It’s the best part of the day.
George Allen

11.) It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.
Ellen DeGeneres

12.) Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.
Joe Peterson

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Smile Sayings

13.) When it rains, it pours. But soon, the sun shines again. Stay positive. Better days are on their way.
Unknown

14.) Stay beautiful, stay positive, and remember that you matter in this world.
Unknown

15.) If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles.
Widad Akrawi

16.) Convince yourself every day that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.
Germany Kent

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Good Positive Quotes For Work

17.) Work is love made visible.
Kahlil Gibran

18.) One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Thomas A. Edison

19.) Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca

20.) The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.
Zig Ziglar

21.) Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser

22.) Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

23.) After you start doing the thing, that’s when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.
John Maxwell

24.) If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Brian Tracy

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

26.) Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

27.) Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work, and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last.
Hamilton Holt

28.) Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Lou Holtz

29.) Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
Brian Tracy

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About Life

30.) Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Dennis P. Kimbro

31.) Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

32.) Live life to the fullest and focus on the positive.
Matt Cameron

33.) Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

34.) My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
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35.) Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

36.) An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Prescott

37.) You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
Joyce Meyer

38.) Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli

39.) Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
Helen Keller

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

41.) Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Ray Kroc

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

43.) If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

44.) Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell

45.) Live each day as if your life had just begun.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

46.) 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

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It’s All About Attitude Sayings

47.) If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnett

48.) If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
Pat Riley

49.) A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.
David Bailey

50.) What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.
J. Sidlow Baxter

51.) A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
Wade Boggs

52.) Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.
Rodolfo Costa

53.) Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
Lou Holtz

54.) Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.
Kirsten Sweetland

55.) Commitment, belief, and a positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
Donald Johanson

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Positive Thinking

56.) Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe.
Oprah Winfrey

57.) Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde

58.) Even miracles take a little time.
The Fairy Godmother, Cinderella

59.) Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X

60.) We need not wait to see what others do.
Mahatma Gandhi 

61.) Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.
Maya Angelou

62.) You are your best thing.
Toni Morrison

63.) Happiness is not by chance but by choice.
Jim Rohn

64.) One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
Henry Miller

65.) The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!
Dolly Parton

Short Positive Quotes

66.) Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.
French proverb

67.) I can, therefore, I am.
Simone Weil

68.) Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill

69.) Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau

70.) He who has a why to live can bear almost anyhow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

71.) Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

72.) Dream big and dare to fail.
Norman Vaughan

73.) It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney

74.) Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

75.) Begin anywhere.
John Cage

76.) Hope is the heartbeat of the soul.
Michelle Horst

77.) The obstacle is the path.
Zen Proverb

Motivational Quotes

78.) The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

79.) It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary

80.) If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
Dolly Parton

81.) 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

82.) Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
Toni Morrison

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

84.) You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou

85.) Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
Vince Lombardi

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Famous Positive Quotes

86.) Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa

87.) Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

88.) Have faith in yourself and in the future.
Ted Kennedy

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

90.) Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

91.) Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

92.) If you dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

93.) Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell

94.) If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

95.) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Words of Encouragement

96.) Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman

97.) Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan

98.) We will fail when we fail to try.
Rosa Parks

99.) A dead end is just a good place to turn around.
Naomi Judd

100.) Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein

101.) The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

102.) Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.
Babe Ruth

103.) Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbinslife.

104.) You do not find the happy life. You make it.
Camilla Eyring Kimball

105.) You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. 
C.S. Lewis

106.) Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.
Henry Ford

Wise Words

107.) The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.
S. Ajna

108.) Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun

109.) You never know which people, places, and experiences are going to shift your perspective until after you’ve left them behind and had some time to look back.
Quinta Brunson

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

111.) Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi

112.) Pay attention to the present; you can improve upon it.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

113.) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson

114.) It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle

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

By Michael O’Halloran

About Michael O'Halloran

Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He’s the author of Best Sports Slogans and Captions. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and authored four books on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market, most dealing with wordplay.

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