Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life begins to vary. Maybe every day isn’t good for everyone but there’s always something good during a day. There’s getting to be very painful moments in your life which will change your entire world in a matter of minutes. These moments will change you. Let them cause you to stronger, smarter, and kinder but don’t you go and become someone that you simply aren’t. Reach for the upper ground, every day, in every decision. Big and small, our choices add up to the life we live in. Be someone who encourages and uplifts. Share your story. Trust in what you feel. Follow your heart. Live the dream in you. Then you inspire somebody else to measure on their higher ground. Here we found the best positive uplifting inspirational quotes and sayings that will encourage you and enlighten you in every situation.
Positive uplifting quotes
1. “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
Cathy Guisewite
2. “Be happy – it drives people crazy.”
Unknown
3. “Live each day like it’s your second to the last. That way you can fall asleep at night.”
Jason Love
4. “It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”
Amelia Barr
5. “People who wonder whether the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.”
Simon Sinek
6. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
Groucho Marx
7. “Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.”
Langston Coleman
8. “When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best – that is inspiration.”
Robert Bresson
9. “Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing ’til it gets there.”
Josh Billings
10. “Bad decisions make good stories.”
Ellis Vidler
11. “Think like a proton. Always positive.”
Author Unknown
12. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
13. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
Lily Tomlin
14. “If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”
Marie Osmond
15. “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
Buckminster Fuller
16. “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
Hans Christian Andersen
17. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
Roald Dahl
18. “You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
Irish Proverb
19. “When you know better, you do better.”
Maya Angelou
20. “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
Christopher Robin
21. “If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”
Taylor Swift
22. “No one is perfect — that’s why pencils have erasers.”
Anonymous
23. “I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.”
Thuli Madonsela
24. “We grow great by dreams.”
Woodrow Wilson
25. “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
Thomas Jefferson
26. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
Dr. Seuss
27. “A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can’t be good at everything.”
Kelly Williams Brown
28. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley
29. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
William James
30. “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
Dalai Lama
31. “Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”
Jacques Prevert
32. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”
Robert Frost
33. “It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.”
Confucius
34. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
Robert Collier
35. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
Anonymous
36. “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
James Allen
37. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
George Lorimer
38. “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.”
Malala Yousafzai
39. “Each day provides its own gifts.”
Marcus Aurelius
40. “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”
Kevin Kruse
41. “Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.”
Anonymous
42. “Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.”
Naval Ravikant
43. “Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
Harvey Fierstein
44. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Soren Kierkegaard
45. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
John Muir
46. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
Maya Angelou
47. “I dwell in possibility.”
Emily Dickinson
48. “Light tomorrow with today.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
49. “A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.”
Joyce Meyer
50. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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Conclusion
“Don’t wait for things to get easier, simpler, or better. Life will always be complicated. Learn to be happy right now. Otherwise, you’ll run out of time.”
