Top 50 Positive Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “All things are difficult before they are easy.”

— Thomas Fuller

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2. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

3. “The past has no power over the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

4. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

— Jim Rohn

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5. “You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”

— Joyce Meyer

6. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

— Milton Berle

7. “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”

— Robin S. Sharma

8. “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”

— Michael Jordan

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9. “The best revenge is massive success.”

— Frank Sinatra

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10. “If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.”

— John C. Maxwell

11. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

— Henri Matisse

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12. “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”

— Peace Pilgrim

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13. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”

— Vince Lombardi

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14. “Hope is a waking dream.”

— Aristotle

15. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

— Will Rogers

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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17. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

18. “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

20. “It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”

— Thomas Fuller

21. “The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible , and achieves the impossible.”

— Winston Churchill

22. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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23. “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”

— Helen Keller

24. “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.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

25. “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Confucius

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27. “An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.”

— Brian Tracy

28. “Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

29. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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30. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”

— James Oppenheim

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31. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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32. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

— Edith Wharton

33. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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34. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

— William James

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35. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”

— Willie Nelson

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36. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

— Kenji Miyazawa

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37. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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38. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Dolly Parton

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40. “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

41. “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

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

— Arthur Rubinstein

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43. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

— Woody Allen

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44. “The best way out is always through.”

— Robert Frost

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45. “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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46. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

— Douglas Adams

47. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

— Og Mandino

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48. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

— Babe Ruth

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49. “You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.”

— Emmet Fox

50. “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”

— Colin Powell

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