Are you feeling down and in need of a few uplifting words to help you get through the day? These uplifting quotes we compiled could be just what you need. We hope these quotes will encourage you to keep on going and help you stay strong no matter what life throws your way. Don’t forget to share them with the people you love, you’ll never know, they might need a little encouragement too!
Uplifting Quotes
1. A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can’t be good at everything. – Kelly Williams Brown
2. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
3. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James
4. Choose to be optimistic, it feels better. – Dalai Lama
5. Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. – Jacques Prevert
6. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. – Robert Frost
7. It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop. – Confucius
8. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. – Robert Collier
9. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
10. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. – James Allen
11. You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. – George Lorimer
12. The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. – Ayn Rand
13. Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, “I will try again tomorrow. – Mary Anne Radmacher
14. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher
15. If it’s not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it’s a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between. – Sara Evans
16. In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me. – Julia Cameron
17. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt.
18. Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. – Marilyn Monroe
19. Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existence. – Sarah Dessen
20. One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now. – Caroline Webb
21. Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. – Francis Chan
22. To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good. – Barbara DeAngelis
23. Light tomorrow with today. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
24. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
25. If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit
26. If you embrace your flaws, nobody can use them against you. – Cara Alwill Leyba
27. What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. – Colette
28. Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you. – Heidi Johnson
29. Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.
30. Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them. – Norman Vincent Peale
31. If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. – Dalai Lama
32. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun
33. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston S. Churchill
34. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. – Robert Schuller
35. The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. – Mark Caine
36. To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. – Mike Gafka
37. Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. – Vaibhav Shah
38. The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. – Nelson Mandela
39. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King
40. You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing. – Philippos
41. Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman
42. It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. – Amelia Barr
43. The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. – Bertrand Russell
44. Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality. – Malala Yousafzai
45. All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. – Earl Nightingale
46. The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. – Thomas Jefferson
47. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. – E. E. Cummings
48. The power of imagination makes us infinite. – John Muir
49. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. – Maya Angelou
50. I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. – Gustave Flaubert
51. I dwell in possibility. – Emily Dickinson
52. I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me. – Zane Grey
53. A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. – Joyce Meyer
54. When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. – Wilma Rudolph
55. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future, it is something you design for the present. – Jim Rohn
56. In a gentle way, you can shake the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
57. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf. – Rabindranath Tagore
58. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. – Joseph Campbell
59. Each day provides its own gifts. – Marcus Aurelius
60. Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. – Albert Schweitzer
61. I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you’re going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you. – C. JoyBell C.
62. Because paper has more patience than people. – Anne Frank
63. Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. – Thich Nhat Hanh
64. Soul mates’ are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price. – Spencer W. Kimball
65. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. – Lucy Maud Montgomery
66. How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death. – Gordon B. Hinckley
67. What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened. Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out. People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. – Eleanor H. Porter
68. If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don’t, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way. – Matt D. Miller
69. Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I’ll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind. – William Shakespeare
70. Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone. – Cameron Dokey
71. Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin’ gold. And like the sky my soul is also turnin’. Turnin’ from the past, at last and all I’ve left behind. – Ray Lamontagne
72. Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope. – James E. Faust
73. The devil’s happy when the critics run you off. – Criss Jami,
74. You can wake up every day looking forward to new adventures with hope smiling brightly before you because you have a Savior. You are baptized in His Church. You just need to stay in, pressing forward with a brightness of hope to your heavenly home. – Julie B. Beck
75. Some of our struggles involve making decisions, while others are a result of the decisions we have made. Some of our struggles result from choices others make that affect our lives. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations. – L. Lionel Kendrick
76. I will always find a way and a way will always find me. – Charles F. Glassman
77. But she loves me. Me. Just the way I am. – P.C. Cast
78. It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed. – Doe Zantamata
79. Everything is within your power, and your power is within you. – Janice Trachtman
80. We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all. – John Corey Whaley
81. Beauty may no longer be what it was before. It has become suspect and many have dethroned it from its art pedestal. A lot of questions are raised. “When” is art?”, “What” is art?”, “Can this be art? ” As some feel so powerless and speechless, they painfully resort to the uplifting and comforting counsel of their art shrink. – Erik Pevernagie
82. Treasure up these words in thy heart. Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God and I will encircle thee in the arms of my love.
83. It was after I first began to uplift my thoughts a bit that my cravings for junk food started to dissipate. I did not connect the two at that time. First, I simply noticed that I didn’t need to sleep so much. It took a while before I realized that in addition to my improved energy level, there was a direct correlation between chewing on mental garbage and putting garbage in my mouth. – Holly Mosier
84. Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something. – Ralph Marston
85. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa
86. Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go, they merely determine where you start. – Nido Qubein
87. Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain. To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. – Kevyn Aucoin
88. Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. – Napoleon Hill
89. I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. – Henry Rollins
90. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
91. I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. – Georgia O’Keeffe
92. Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now. – Eckhart Tolle
93. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless. – Byron Katie
94. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life, not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. – Khalil Gibran
95. 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
96. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover. – Mark Twain
97. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou
98. Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons do not last. The spring rains will come. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
99. To help yourself, help others. Whatever good you do travels a circle and returns to you many times over- but remember, life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you become. – Dennis Gaskill
100. 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
101. A constructive, useful life, good works, and good relationships are as valid as writing poetry or inventing a machine. Anything that one does well and obtains satisfaction from is a good enough reason for living. To be a decent human being that people like and feel better for knowing is enough. – Robert Gould
102. Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. – Alice Walker
103. We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. – Mary Dunbar
104. Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. – W. Clement Stone
105. Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
106. It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. – Agnes M. Pharo
107. This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero. – Swami Sivananda
108. You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage pleasantly, smilingly, unapologetically, to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside. – Stephen R. Covey
109. Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill
110. The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape. – Bono
111. Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else. – Sara Blakely
112. 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. – Martha Graham
113. Life is about making an impact, not making an income. – Kevin Kruse
114. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
115. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein
116. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
117. I attribute my success to this. I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale
118. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
119. 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
120. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. – Amelia Earhart
121. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth
122. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. – W. Clement Stone
123. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. – Kevin Kruse
124. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon
125. We become what we think about. – Earl Nightingale
126. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. – Charles Swindoll
127. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker
128. The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Buddha
129. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb
130. An unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates
131. Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
132. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
133. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi
134. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. – Stephen Covey
135. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso
136. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Christopher Columbus
137. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn
138. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
139. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain
140. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
141. You will encounter many challenges in life. But you must never be defeated by the challenges. – Lailah Gifty Akita
142. Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed. – Joseph Smith, Jr
143. You push the truth off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the truth under water, but it will not drown. You can place the truth in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the truth beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails. – Amaka Imani Nkosazana
