Positivity Quotes
When it seems like nothing’s going your way when things are tough and you feel like you can’t go on — it’s often at that moment that something good will happen.
A little positivity can go a long way and is a great remedy for the inevitable downs in life.
May the following positivity quotes serve as a reminder that life goes on despite setbacks. If you can get through the moment and the day, better things await.
Best Positivity Quotes
1.) Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster; it’s more like a cha-cha.
Robert Brault
2.) Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.
Unknown
3.) Yes, we can!
Barack Obama
4.) It always seems impossible until it is done.
Nelson Mandela
5.) If you think you can then you can.
Stephen Richards
6.) The moment where you doubt you can fly, you cease forever being able to do it.
Peter Pan J.M. Barrie
7.) Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
Lou Holtz
8.) Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles Schulz
9.) My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful, and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
Jack Layton
10.) The possible is just the impossible that we’ve come to accept.
Stewart Stafford
11.) Mind is a flexible mirror; adjust it to see a better world.
Amit Ray
Optimistic Quotations
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
Epictetus
I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin
A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson
Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; it’s your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good!
There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.
C. Joybell C.
It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
Think about every good thing in your life right now. Free yourself of worrying. Let go of the anxiety, breathe. Stay positive; all is well.
Germany Kent
Funny Positivity Quotations
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Life is like a sewer – what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Tom Lehrer
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller
A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Joyce Meyer
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.
Rick Steves
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Dalai Lama
Change is not a four-letter word – but often, your reaction to it is!
Jeffrey Gitomer
Amusing Takes on Having a Good Attitude
When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.
Cathy Guisewite
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
Short Positivity Quotes
Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.
Richie Norton
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West
Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.
Jim Thompson
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
George Eliot
If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.
Guy Finley
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller
Think like a proton. Always positive.
Unknown
No matter how small you start, always dream big.
Stephen Richards
Each day provides its own gifts.
Marcus Aurelius
What we think, we become.
Buddha
Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
Helena Rubinstein
I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson
The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.
Roy T. Bennett
The Power of Positivity Video
This short video is based on the Norman Vincent Peale book, The Power of Positive Thinking. Get in the happiness habit – and start, by watching this video.
Famous Positivity Sayings
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
Roald Dahl
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
Paulo Coelho
When things go wrong, don’t go with them.
Elvis Presley
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
You’re off to great places; today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.
Dr. Seuss
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan
Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
Dalai Lama
Accentuate the Positive
When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head-on, the only way is forward and through it.
Stephen Richards
You say freak, I say unique.
Christian Baloga
Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
Mahatma Gandhi
The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
Charles Dickens
It’s okay. It may not seem like it right now, but you are going to be fine. I know it’s scary, but don’t be afraid. You are who you are, and you should love that person, and I don’t want anyone to have to go through 22 years of their life afraid to accept that.
Connor Franta
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Stephen Richards
Be Positive Insights
Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.
Criss Jami
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
You do not find the happy life. You make it.
Thomas S. Monson
I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.
Jenny Han
Whatever is worrying you right now—forget about it. Take a deep breath, stay positive, and know things will get better.
Unknown
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar
When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.
Shannon L. Alder
Happy Thoughts about Life
It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.
Germany Kent
In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.
Les Brown
Let your unique awesomeness and positive energy inspire confidence in others.
Unknown
Positive Energy
People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.
Steve Maraboli
Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams.
Brad Sugars
Even if I don’t reach all my goals, I’ve gone higher than I would have if I hadn’t set any.
Danielle Fotopoulos
Most of all, I’ll remind them each morning that we make a choice to bring positivity or negativity into the world, and that within every single person there lies an extraordinary story waiting to unfold.
Adam Braun
If you see the world and yourself through a lens smudged by negativity then you’ll find much misery. If you look outwards and inwards through lens brightened by positivity you’ll find much to be happy and appreciative about.
Henrik Edberg
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Marcus Aurelius
Positivity Quotes for Success
Everything is within your power, and your power is within you.
Janice Trachtman
The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.
Joe Girard
I’ve missed more than 9,000 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
Live life to the fullest and focus on the positive.
Matt Cameron
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Mary Lou Retton
The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
Stephen Richards
Positivity Quotes for Instagram
If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship— you won.
Lalah Delia
Stay positive. Better days are on their way.
Unknown
Find magic in the little things, and the big things you always expected will start to show up.
Isa Zapata
You’re braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A.A. Mine
If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
Tennessee Williams
Every day may not be good… but there’s something good in every day.
Alice Morse Earle
Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
Jodi Picoult
Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.
Unknown
When you fail, that is when you get closer to success.
Stephen Richards
It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.
Ellen DeGeneres
By MJ O’Halloran
MJ writes about family, culture, and entertainment.
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