Top 200 Positive Life Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes

2. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Life Quotes, Interesting Quotes

3. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Attitude Quotes

4. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Optimistic Quotes

5. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

6. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Impact Quotes, Optimistic Quotes

7. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Goal Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Education Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

8. “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life

9. “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes

10. “What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

11. “Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All is well in my life.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes

12. “I am totally safe in the Universe. I am at peace everywhere. I trust life.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

13. “If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Excellence Quotes

14. “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Leadership Quotes

15. “Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Discipline Quotes

16. “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”

— Maori Proverb

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17. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Action Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

18. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Goal Quotes, Action Quotes

19. “The future depends on what you do today.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Change Quotes, Action Quotes

20. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

21. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Emotional Quotes

22. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

— Robert Frost

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

23. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

24. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Change Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life

25. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

— Dolly Parton

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Interesting Quotes

26. “Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Growth Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

27. “For your life to be great, your faith must be bigger than your fear.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

28. “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Empowering Quotes

29. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

30. “Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Attitude Quotes

31. “Great acts are made up of small deeds.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes, Wise Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

32. “This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

33. “Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”

— Hans Selye

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Stress Quotes

34. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— George Eliot

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

35. “If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

36. “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Goal Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life

37. “Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Focus Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

38. “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Failure Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

39. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

— Bertrand Russell

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Time Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

40. “One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Happy Quotes, Optimistic Quotes

41. “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

— Carl R. Rogers

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

42. “When you know better you do better.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Change Quotes, Education Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

43. “Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Monday Motivation Quotes

44. “The secret to living is giving.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Values Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

45. “Make every day your masterpiece. ”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes

46. “Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Patience Quotes, Positivity Quotes

47. “Never give up on what you really want to do”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Personal Development Quotes

48. “Do your best and God will do the rest.”

— Nick Vujicic

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Effort Quotes, Quotes About Trying

49. “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”

— Jack Kerouac

Also featured in: Life Lessons Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

50. “Don’t look back – you’re not going that way.”

— Mary Engelbreit

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Growth Quotes, Future Quotes