73 Inspiring Positive Short Quotes to Uplift Your Day

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Confucius

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Ask not what the world needs; ask what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

- Howard Thurman

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

- Walt Whitman

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

- Ian Maclaren

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

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

- Confucius

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Dolly Parton

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"I am not afraid. I was born to do this."

- Joan of Arc

"You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."

- Louis L'Amour

"There is one grand lie: that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe."

- Wayne Dyer

"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure."

- Joseph Campbell

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You,' that would suffice."

- Meister Eckhart

"Don't allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not."

- Paulo Coelho

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."

- Viola Davis

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Mark Twain

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

- Gandhi

"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky."

- Armand Hammer

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson

"You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you."

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Jane Goodall

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

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

- Babe Ruth

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Don't worry about failure, you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft."

- Cornel West

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

- Norman Cousins

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

- Mark Twain

"The Pearl Principle – no inner irritation, no pearl."

- Lama Surya Das

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

- Albert Einstein

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement."

- Abraham Maslow

"God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. You were never not coming here."

- Sufi poem

"Whatever is… is best."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"When two people fall in love, past and future disappear."

- The Alchemist

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."