170+ Positive Thinking Quotes to Start Your Day

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.

Jack Canfield

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Marcel Pagnol

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.

Oscar Wilde

And so the adventure begins. If you want it, work for it. You can if you think you can.

George Reeves

Don’t dream your life, live your dream. If it matters to you, you’ll find a way.

Charlie Gilkey

Don’t tell people your plans. Show them your results. Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Socrates

Dream big. Pray bigger. Leave no stone unturned.

Euripides

Dream without fear. Love without limits. Every noble workis at first impossible.

Thomas Carlyle

Fight till the last gasp.

William Shakespeare

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

Confucius

Life is about making an impact, not making an income.

Kevin Kruse

Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got.

Tim Cook

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

Open your mind. Get up off the couch. Move.

Anthony Bourdain

Take the risk or lose the chance. Do it with passion or not at all. She believed she could, so she did. The past does not equal the future.

Tony Robbins

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Les Brown

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Helen Keller

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

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

Bruce Lee

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs are more people who have, life.

Howard Thurman

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Charles Swindoll

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

Ray Kroc

Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

Will Rogers

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Steve Jobs

A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.

Martin Luther King Jr

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

Will Rogers

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.

Augustine of Hippo

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness looks gorgeous on you. You are capable of amazing things. You are somebody’s reason to smile. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

Steven Wright

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Ray Croft

I never feel more alone than when I’m trying to put sunscreen on my back.

Jimmy Kimmel

I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.

Steve Martin

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

Albert Einstein

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

It’s okay to not be okay as long as you are not giving up. If you feel like giving up, look back at how far you’ve come. Every day may not be good but there is something good in every day. Don’t go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.

George Carlin

Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.

Gary Keller

Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

Vanessa Paradis

Life is the car, your heart is the key and God is the chauffeur.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

No pressure, no diamonds.

Thomas Carlyle

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Stay foolish to stay sane.

Maxime Lagacé

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Benjamin Disraeli

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Lao Tzu

The knowledge of happiness brings the knowledge of unhappiness.

Swami Vivekananda

The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

James Crook

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Augustine of Hippo

Think like a proton, always positive. You are stronger than you think you are. Focus on the journey, not the destination.

Greg Anderson

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.

Bill Wilson

What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.

Albert Einstein

When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

George Harrison

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.

Joan Rivers

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Rumi

You have to be odd to be number one.

Seuss

You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you. Breathe. It’s just a bad day, not a bad life. The first step is you have to say that you can.

Will Smith

Your faith can move mountains and your doubt can create them.

Anonymous

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

Albert Einstein

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Don’t be afraid your life will end. Be afraid that it will never begin.

Grace Hansen

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

Claus Moser

Enjoy the little things in life because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.

Kurt Vonnegut

I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

Mike Todd

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitzer

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life got to be about more than just solving problems.

Elon Musk

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Douglas MacArthur

Life is a series of baby steps.

Hoda Kotb

Life is about making an impact, not making an income.

Kevin Kruse

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

Gloria Naylor

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Homer

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Bill Gates

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Maya Angelou

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Maya Angelou

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Oscar Wilde

Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Carl Gustav Jung

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Anaïs Nin

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Alan Dundes

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Henry David Thoreau

Love the life you live. Lead the life you love.

Bob Marley

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Sometimes life has its way with you when you least expect it.

Jon Hamm

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

William Shakespeare

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

Steve Jobs

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Alexis Carrel

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

Peter McWilliams

You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.

S. Lewis

You can never lose time and get it back again.

Kevin Kruse

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Charles Bukowski

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

Max Muller

A friend is one what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.

Ellen DeGeneres

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

Coco Chanel

Do all things with love.

Og Mandino

Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Anaïs Nin

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

John Gay

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.

Doug Hutchison

If love appears, boundaries will disappear.

Osho

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you wished to be loved, love.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In true love, you attain freedom.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Mother Teresa

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Elbert Hubbard

Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

Rufus Wainwright

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

Ovid

Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.

Nicholas Sparks

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

John Lennon

Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Loretta Young

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Augustine of Hippo

Speak low, if you speak love.

William Shakespeare

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Mother Teresa

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

The more you judge, the less you love.

Honore de Balzac

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Morrie Schwartz

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Rita Mae Brown

They do not love that do not show their love.

William Shakespeare

This life is like a rose and you are the beauty and fragrance. Without you, all it will be is a faded rose without any charm or a sense of smell.

Matt Cooper

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.

Kurt Cobain

You cannot save people, you can just love them.

Anaïs Nin

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bruce Lee

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happened when you don’t have a plan.

Larry Winget

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.

John Allen Paulos

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Christopher Columbus

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

It’s Not Whether You Get Knocked Down, It’s Whether You Get Up.

Vince Lombardi

Life is a gift, accept it, enjoy it, and be happy with it. Life is a challenge, but challenges can always be overcome.

Catherine Pulsifer

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

Jamie Paolinetti

Part of the challenge that comes with striving for success is how the entire journey comes with its own fair share of failures and disappointments.

Rupert Johnson

Smiling is a wonderful way to get a boost of happiness. The next time life presents you with a challenging situation, take a deep breath and smile.

Morris Pratt

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Understand that it is ok to be scared or uncertain, however right beyond those barriers ultimately lies your dreams.

Josh Hinds

We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.

Maya Angelou