Top 200 Uplifting Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”

— Les Brown

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

— Rumi

153. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

155. “Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

— Bruce Lee

156. “In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.”

— Carol S. Dweck

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

— Henry David Thoreau

158. “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

159. “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

— Charlie Chaplin

160. “Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

161. “Courage, dear heart.”

— C. S. Lewis

162. “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”

— Alan Watts

163. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

164. “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Ernest Holmes

166. “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

167. “Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Max Lucado

170. “When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.”

— Zig Ziglar

171. “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

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

— Jimmy Dean

173. “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

174. “The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

175. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

— John Wooden

176. “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

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

— Joel Osteen

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

— Margaret Mead

179. “The noblest art is that of making others happy.”

— P.T. Barnum

180. “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

181. “You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.”

— Oprah Winfrey

182. “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

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

— Betty Friedan

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

— Muhammad Ali

185. “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

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

— Colin Powell

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

— Nelson Mandela

188. “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— William Arthur Ward

190. “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

191. “Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.”

— Les Brown

192. “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

193. “Don’t let your want for perfection become procrastination.”

— Danielle LaPorte

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

— Francis Bacon

195. “When you make a choice, you change the future.”

— Deepak Chopra

196. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.”

— John Lennon

197. “Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.”

— David Jeremiah

198. “Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.”

— Will Ferrell

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

— Henri Matisse

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

— William James