50 Inspirational Quotes to Keep You Positive Every Day

"Surround yourself with positive people."

- Rod Rohrich

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

""Friends are the family we choose.""

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Roy T. Bennett

""Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.""

- Maya Angelou

""Happiness is not by chance but by choice.""

- Jim Rohn

""Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible.’""

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Willie Nelson

""Positive anything is better than negative nothing.""

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Les Brown

""Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.""

- Colin Powell

""Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you.""

- Mary Lou Retton

""Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window—or break down a door.""

- Brooke Shields

""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

""When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, 'What are you gonna do about it?' I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.""

- Beyonce

""Believing you are unworthy of love and belonging—that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong—is deadly. Who you are is beautiful and amazing.""

- Laverne Cox

""You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.""

- Stephen King

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

- A.A. Milne

""The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.""

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Matt Cameron

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Albert Einstein

""Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world.""

- Oprah Winfrey

""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

""The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!""

- Dolly Parton

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

""Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.""

- Jon Bon Jovi

""Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.""

- Roald Dahl, Matilda

""The moment where you doubt you can fly, you cease for ever being able to do it.""

- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Roy T. Bennett

""Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.""

- Oprah Winfrey

""Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.""

- Helen Keller

""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

""It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.""

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

""When you can pull yourself out of your own muck, by giving your same old stories happier endings, you'll find that rage turns to peace, pain to power, fear to courage.""

- Martha Beck

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Zig Ziglar

""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

"So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

- Bruce Lee

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Confucius

"Go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow."

- Caroline Myss

"The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The first and best victory is to conquer self."

- Plato

"You’ve been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

- Louise Hay

"Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don’t matter."

- Michelle Obama

"Sometimes, the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up."

- Brene Brown

"Don’t you dare shrink yourself for someone else’s comfort. Do not become small for people who refuse to grow."

- Steve Maraboli

"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."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

- Shiv Khera

"Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better."

- Harvey Mackay

"Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals."

- Amy Morin

"Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful."

- Martin E. P. Seligman

"The power of positive thinking can change your life."

- Devin McCourty

"Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive."

- Roy T. Bennett

"When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life."

- Roy T. Bennett

"If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles."

- Widad Akrawi

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

- Wade Boggs

"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

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be thankful for everything that happens in your life. It’s all an experience."

- Roy Bennett

"Stay positive in every situation and everything you do and never stop trying. Have faith. Don’t stop due to failure."

- Anurag Prakash Ray

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."

- Mary Lou Retton

"Having the positive belief that it will all be OK just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind."

- Natalie Massenet

"A positive mind finds a way it can be done. A negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done."

- Napoleon Hill

"The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Matt Cameron

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

- William James

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

- Buddha

"You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you."

- Lee J. Colan

"Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality."

- Brian Tracy

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."

- William James

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

- William James

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Walt Whitman

"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

"Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive."

- Jim Thompson

"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Each day provides its own gifts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"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

""You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.""

- Mae West

"The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

""The most wasted of days is one without laughter.""

- E.E. Cummings

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale

""We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.""

- Dolly Parton

""Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.""

- Robert H. Schuller

"Change your thoughts and you can change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

""Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.""

- Michelle Obama

""You are your best thing.""

- Toni Morrison

"When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits– anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving."

- Kim McMillen

""Just keep swimming""

- Dory, Finding Nemo

""Why fit in when you were born to stand out?""

- Dr. Seuss

""It’s a whole lot more satisfying to reach for the stars, even if you end up landing only on the moon.""

- Kermit the Frog, The Muppets

"The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there."

- Vince Lombardi

""If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.""

- Tom Hanks

""The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.""

- Dr. Seuss

""First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream of coming true.""

- Walt Disney

"People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It’s really important."

- Kirsty Coventry

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"I dwell in possibility."

- Emily Dickinson

"Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Alexandra Elle

""Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.""

- Deep Roy

"The only way to grow is to challenge yourself."

- Ashley Tisdale

""What is to give light must endure burning.""

- Viktor Frankl

""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

"A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

- Joyce Meyer

"What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?"

- John Green

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Personal development is a major time-saver. The better you become, the less time it takes you to achieve your goals."

- Brian Tracy

"We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day."

- Gayle Forman

"The most wasted of days is one without laughter."

- E.E. Cummings

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

- John Wooden

"You’re a fighter. Look at everything you’ve overcome. Don’t give up now."

- Olivia Benson

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I can’t think of a better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself."

- Emma Stone

"Worrying won’t stop bad stuff from happening. It just keeps you from enjoying the good."

- Nita Williams Brooks

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

- Benjamin Franklin

"When you learn how much you’re worth, you’ll stop giving people discounts."

- Helen Keller

"There is no greater journey than the one that you must take to discover all of the mysteries that lie within you."

- Michelle Sandlin

"You are so much more than what you are going through."

- John Tew

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

- Hasidic Proverb

""My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.""

- Mavis Staples

""Your power is not in where you are. Your power is in where you've been.""

- T.D. Jakes

"Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward."

- Victor Kiam

""Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.""

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."

- Wilma Rudolph

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Obstacles do not block the path; they are the path."

- Zen Proverb

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

- Kobe Bryant

"When life throws you a rainy day– play in the puddles."

- Pooh Bear

"Do good and good will come to you."

- Adam Lowy

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

""Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon.""

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

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

- Dolly Parton

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

""Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.""

- Victor Kiam

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

""Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.""

- William James

""One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.""

- Lucille Ball

""Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.""

- Jim Thompson

""Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.""

- Dali Lama

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."

- Ray Kroc

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."

- Oprah Winfrey

""The key to life when things get tough is to just keep moving. Just keep moving.""

- Tyler Perry

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

""Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.""

- Oscar Wilde

"Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams."

- Brad Sugars

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

- Dolly Parton

""Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.""

- Maggie Kuhn

"Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome."

- E.A. Bucchianeri

"There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger."

- Eric Bates

""Your attitude is critical to success. If you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve problems, overcome adversity, and have an enthusiastic energy about how you go about and enjoy your work.""

- Nick Saban

""Find out who you are and do it on purpose.""

- Dolly Parton

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

""You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.""

- Dolly Parton

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"

- Dr. Seuss

""Every strike brings me closer to a home run.""

- Babe Ruth

"The tests we face in life's journey are not to reveal our weaknesses but to help us discover our inner strengths. We can only know how strong we are when we strive and thrive beyond the challenges we face."

- Kemi Sogunle

""Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.""

- Tony Robbins

"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"Recognize what you have inside you."

- Eric Pulier

"Change how you see and see how you change."

- Zen Proverb

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything."

- Irish Proverb

"If you can’t have the best of everything, make the best of everything you have."

- Amish Proverb

"If you wish to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today."

- African Proverb

"Don’t carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones to rise above them."

- Ryan Ferreras

"Be yourself and people will like you."

- Jeff Kinney

"Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life."

- Charlie Brown

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

"It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone."

- Hans F. Hansen

"Growth is uncomfortable because you’ve never been here before – you’ve never been this version of you. So give yourself a little grace, a breath through it."

- Kristin Lohr

""Kindness is one thing you can’t give away. It always comes back.""

- George Skolsky

"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."

- Allen Saunders

""Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.""

- Jodi Picoult

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

""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

"Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look."

- Jodi Picoult

""A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.""

- Joyce Meyer

"Better light a candle, than curse the darkness."

- Chinese Proverb

"A dead end is just a good place to turn around."

- Naomi Judd

"Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges."

- Amit Ray

"Life always gives us another change: It's called 'To Move On'."

- Ana Claudia Antunes

""Even miracles take a little time""

- The Fairy Godmother, Cinderella

""Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.""

- Roald Dahl, The Minpins

""Always let your conscience be your guide.""

- Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio

""There are years that ask questions and years that answer.""

- Zora Neale Hurston

""If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.""

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."

- Bruce Lee

"The only journey is the journey within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

""I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.""

- Dolly Parton

"You owe yourself the love you so freely give to other people."

- Katrina Mayer

"It’s so empowering to say ‘this isn’t serving me’ and walk away in peace."

- Hafiz

"Bad things can teach us how to look at good things in a whole new light."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Optimist. Someone who isn’t sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play."

- Robert Brault

"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being."

- Lucille Ball

"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."

- German Proverb

"In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you."

- Andrea Dykstra

"You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it."

- Robin Williams

"Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one to find the gold."

- Proverbs 11:27

"You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself."

- English Proverb

""A dead end is just a good place to turn around.""

- Naomi Judd

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable."

- Kenyan Proverb

"You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life."

- Unknown

"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right."

"May your troubles be less and your blessings be more."

"Train your mind to see the good in every situation."

"Think positive, be positive and positive things will happen."

- Unknown

"If you can stay positive in a negative situation, you win."

"Stay positive. Better days are on their way."

"Stay strong; things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever."

- Unknown

"Don’t try to be perfect. Just try to be better than you were yesterday."

- Unknown

"Never hold your head down, never say you can’t, never limit yourself, and never stop believing."

- Unknown

"A positive mind finds opportunity in everything. A negative mind finds fault in everything."

- Unknown

"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."

- Unknown

"Kindness is a gift everyone can afford to give."

- Unknown

"Laughing is like a windshield wiper, it doesn’t stop the rain but allows us to keep going."

- Unknown

"Staying positive does not mean everything will turn out okay. Rather, it means you will be okay no matter how things turn out."

"It is the same life, whether we spend it laughing or crying."

"Whatever is worrying you right now—forget about it. Take a deep breath, stay positive and know things will get better."

"Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth."

"Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place."

"You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks."

""Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.""

"A wise man was asked ‘what is anger?’ he gave a beautiful answer ‘it is a punishment we give to ourselves, for somebody else’s mistake."

""Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too.""