100+ Inspirational and Positive Thinking Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind."

- Joyce Meyer

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

- Colin Powell

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"Nothing is impossible; the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

- Zig Ziglar

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

- Willie Nelson

"When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective."

- Harvey Mackay

"In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision."

- Dalai Lama

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."

- Helen Keller

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don't Just Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Keep Going Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough."

- Richard M. DeVos

"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things."

- Demi Lovato

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

- Christopher McCandless

"Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come."

- Henri Nouwen

"You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."

- Winston Churchill

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

- Buddha

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Confucius

"Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day."

- Alice Morse Earle

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

- Lao Tzu

"We are what we repeatedly do."

- Aristotle

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."

- Joseph Campbell

"I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door."

- Marla Gibbs

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

- William James

"Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"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

"I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in."

- Roger Clemens

"To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."

- Tony Dorsett

"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."

- Joyce Brothers

"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."

- Kobe Bryant

"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination."

- Ralph Marston

"Every day brings new choices."

- Martha Beck

"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive."

- Matt Cameron

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

- John Wooden

"Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up."

- Allen Klein

"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."

- Michael Jordan

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure."

- Roy T. Bennett

"It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Believe in Your Heart Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Acts of Kindness: A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

"It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient."

- Daniel Kahneman

"Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day."

- George Allen, Sr.

"You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events."

- Joel Osteen

"When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple."

- Paulo Coelho

"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

"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."

- Brian Tracy

"Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive."

- Leah LaBelle

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind."

- Emmet Fox

"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do."

- Chuck Norris

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

- Ayn Rand

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."

- Ross Simmonds

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"

- Cindy Gallop

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordo

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

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

- Henry Ford

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Ariana Huffington

"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."

- Les Brown

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."

- John Wooden

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."

- Confucius Kongzi

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."

- Patrick Lencioni

"I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."

- Jean-Francois Cope

"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."

- Mark Cuban

"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."

- Byron Pulsifer

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steve Furtick

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul Bryant

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."

- Childish Gambino

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun."

- APJ Abdul Kalam

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

- Roseanne Barr

"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."

- Cindy Gallop

"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Rumi

"Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."

- Roy T. Bennett

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

- Walt Disney

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

- Aristotle

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed."

- Bennett Cerf

"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."

- Lady Gaga

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

- Aesop

"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news."

- Ethel Waters

"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."

- Khalil Gibran

"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative."

- James Baldwin

"You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable."

- Deepak Chopra

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!"

- Donna Karan

"Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain."

- Robert A. Cook

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

"I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it."

- Michael J. Fox

"Do it with passion or not at all."

- Rosa Nouchette Carey

"Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question."

- Willard Scott

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy."

- George Foreman

"A good laugh is sunshine in the house."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver."

- Betty White

"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."

- Nanea Hoffman

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Be a positive energy trampoline—absorb what you need and rebound more back."

- Dave Carolan

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."

- Constance Wu

"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

"Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffet

"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- Buddha

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!"

- Kate Summers

"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

"Women must learn to play the game as men do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."

- S. O’ Sade

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."

- Dita Von Teese

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Leave no stone unturned."

- Euripides

"My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud."

- Henry Rollins

"Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her."

- Yulia Tymoshenko

"My dear friend, clear your mind of cant."

- Samuel Johnson

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

- Winnie the Pooh

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more"

- Lord Byron

"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."

- George Meredith

"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!"

- T. D. Jakes

"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

- Pablo Picasso

"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."

"Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others."

"Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes."

"No matter how many people believe or don’t believe in you, you must be the ultimate believer in yourself!"

"You only fail when you stop trying and don’t worry about the mistakes because mistakes are the proof that you are trying."

"Dream is not that you see in sleep, dream is something that does not let you sleep."

"Be the Change that you wish to see in the world."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

"Work Hard in Silence, let your success make the noise."

"Erasers are made for those who are willing to correct their mistakes."

"If the moon can shine so bright and beautifully even in the darkest of hours , certainly, so can YOU"

"If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining."

"Love is the only freedom in this world because it raises the soul to a sublime position that the laws and traditions of mankind cannot reach, and the laws and rulings of nature do not prevail over it."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"For if we fall, who shall stand?"

"Do your best to be the best."

"Never stop Learning as life never stops teaching."

"Make the rest of your life, the best of your life."

"Don’t stress, do your best & forget the rest."

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."

"The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have inside, determines which lamp in the sky your heart will swoon."

"This too shall pass"

"A year from now you will wish you had started today."

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could."

"Work until your bank account looks like a phone number."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."