Uplifting Quotes

1. “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”

— Alexander the Great

2. “Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.”

— Orison Swett Marden

3. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.”

— Joyce Meyer

Also featured in: Depression Quotes

4. “The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes

5. “Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Fighting Quotes

6. “Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes

7. “You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”

— Pema Chödrön

Also featured in: Sky Quotes

8. “I want you to know, that you deserve the best. You’re beautiful.”

— Lil Wayne

9. “You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.”

— Melissa Etheridge

10. “You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.”

— Nhat Hanh

11. “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Being Happy Quotes

12. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

— Epictetus

13. “Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.”

— Frederick Douglass

14. “Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

— Booker T. Washington

15. “The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.”

— Alan Cohen

Also featured in: Real Quotes

16. “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”

— Fred Rogers

Also featured in: Depression Quotes

17. “Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.”

— Rumi

18. “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”

— Henry David Thoreau

19. “Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

— Og Mandino

Also featured in: Peace Quotes

20. “When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.”

— Tecumseh

Also featured in: Good Morning Quotes

21. “What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.”

— Henry Ford

22. “Prepare your mind to recieve the best that life has to offer.”

— Ernest Holmes

23. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Travel Quotes

24. “You change your life by changing your heart.”

— Max Lucado

Also featured in: Change Quotes

25. “A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.”

— Isaac Newton

26. “Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

27. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

— Jimmy Dean

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes

28. “Send your life to a whole new level! Zip up the negative words and start speaking faith and victory into your future.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Victory Quotes

29. “I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”

— Margaret Mead

Also featured in: Quotes About Work

30. “You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.”

— Deepak Chopra

31. “We each have a covenant responsibility to be sensitive to the needs of others and serve as the Savior did-to reach out, bless, and uplift those around us.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

32. “Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Quotes About Thinking, Greatness Quotes, Birthday Quotes

33. “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”

— Hermann Hesse

34. “Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”

— Betty Friedan

Also featured in: Birthday Quotes

35. “The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Quotes About Stories

36. “The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.”

— Colin Powell

37. “Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”

— William Arthur Ward

Also featured in: Forgiveness Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

38. “I know that I’ve been put on this Earth to make people happy, to inspire people, and to uplift people. That’s a beautiful thing.”

— DJ Khaled

Also featured in: Beautiful Quotes

39. “I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that’s my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.”

— Dolly Parton

40. “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

— Francis Bacon

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Graduation Quotes