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Positive quotes

Positive quotesThere are different ways of looking at life. As a person one can be neutral, negative, pasiv or positive. Studies have shown that positive persons have the happiest life. You always have the choice of how to react and look at things. Read these positive quotes and be inspired to create a better life for yourself.

  • “Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.” – Brian Tracy
  • “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
  • “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
  • “An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.” – Brian Tracy
  • “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results.” – Wade Boggs



  • “Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but has not solved one yet.” – Maya Angelou
  • “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard
  • “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” – Dr. Wayne W Dyer
  • “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” – Les Brown
  • “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale
  • “In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama
  • Here is some Positive quotes

  • “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
  • “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
  • “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
  • “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
  • “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams
  • “I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it’s proactive and there is positive intent behind it.” – Michael J. Fox
  • “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anais Nin
  • “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” – Kobe Bryant
  • “If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar
  • “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” – Robert H Schuller
  • “Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone’s life in a very positive way are better.” – Tim Howard
  • “Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.” – Maya Watson
  • “When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.” – Stephen Covey
  • “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
  • “The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?” – Steve Schulte
  • “Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Francesca Reigler
  • “Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours.” – Tom Hopkins
  • “Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle
  • “I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened” – Mark Twain
  • “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” – John Wooden
  • “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
  • “I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.” – Harvey Fierstein
  • “The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle
  • “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey



  • “Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.” – Seth Godin
  • More Positive quotes

  • “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
  • “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” – Tony Robbins
  • “If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.” – Guy Finley
  • “Today is a new beginning, a chance to turn your failures into achievements & your sorrows into so goods. No room for excuses.” – Joel Brown
  • “Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn’t be affected by an incident unless you let it.” – Epictetus
  • “No matter what the situation, remind yourself “I have a choice.” – Deepak Chopra
  • “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” – Robin Sharma
  • “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.” – Muhammad Ali
  • “If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.” – John C Maxwell
  • “All you can change is yourself, but sometimes that changes everything!” – Gary W Goldstein
  • “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius
  • “Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” – Anthony Robbins
  • “We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.” – Swami Vivekananda
  • “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore
  • “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” – Abraham Lincoln
  • “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” – W. Clement Stone
  • “The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.” – Unknown
  • “If someone tells you, “You can’t” they really mean, “I can’t.” – Sean Stephenson
  • “Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.” – Og Mandino
  • “The difference in winning and losing is most often…not quitting.” – Walt Disney
  • “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Dennis P. Kimbro
  • “Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.” – Michael Landon
  • “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
  • “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.” – Kurt Vonnegut
  • “The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.” – Will Rogers
  • “Success is falling six times and getting up seven.” – Jon Bon Jovi
  • “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
  • “You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” – C.S Lewis
  • “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” – Stephen King



  • “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller
  • “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” – Joel Osteen
  • “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” – Abraham Lincoln
  • “Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.” – Stephen Covey
  • “Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.” – Stephen Richards
  • The last 15 Positive quotes

  • “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
  • “If you can change your mind, you can change your life.” – William James
  • “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” – Marcus Aurelius
  • “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.” – Eric Thomas
  • “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
  • “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.” – Rumi
  • “When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.” – Stephen Richards
  • “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Unknown
  • “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” – Elvis Presley
  • “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl
  • “Yes We Can!” – Barack Obama
  • “Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” – Paulo Coelho
  • “You say freak, I say unique.” – Christian Baloga
  • “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose”. – Lyndon B. Johnson

A video with positive quotes (Created by Prabakaran Thirumalai)


I hope you liked these positive quotes and may have been inspired to be more positive. You are welcome to share these quotes with those you know and if you know some quotes I have not on this page, please feel free to submit then.

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