The 77 Inspiring and Uplifting Quotes


  1. When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
    -Dr. Joyce Brothers

  2. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
    -Margaret Thatcher

  3. Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life.
    -Aristotle

  4. A man is literally what he thinks.
    -James Allen

  5. Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
    -Sanskrit Poem

  6. The difference between an obstacle and an opportunity is our attitude towards it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.
    -J. Sidlo Baxter

  7. It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.
    -Whoopi Goldberg

  8. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
    -Douglas Adams

  9. Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
    -Sir James Barrie

  10. When I hear somebody say, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
    -Sydney J. Harris

  11. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
    -Douglas MacArthur

  12. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
    -Carl W. Buechner

  13. Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
    -William Jennings Bryan

  14. Happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
    -Dale Carnegie

  15. Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.
    -Norman Vincent Peale

  16. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
    -Hugh Downs

  17. What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
    -Unknown

  18. Well done is better than well said.
    -Ben Franklin

  19. Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
    -Carl Sandburg

  20. The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
    -Larry Eisenberg

  21. Kindness is a language, which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. -Mark Twain

  22. The man who is born with a talent, which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.
    -Goethe

  23. For the wise man, every day is a festival.
    -Plutarch

  24. Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life is: could have, might have, and should have.
    -Louis E. Boone

  25. When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a light.
    -H.K. Barclay

  26. It is never to late to be what you might have been.
    -George Eliot

  27. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
    -Henry Ward Beecher

  28. Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
    -Orison Swett Marden

  29. Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.
    -Gerry Sikorski

  30. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray.
    -Doug Hall

  31. A day without laughter is a day wasted.
    -Charlie Chaplin

  32. We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
    -Benjamin Disraeli

  33. The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
    -Oliver Wendell Holmes

  34. Happiness and love are just a choice away.
    -Leo Buscaglia

  35. In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
    -Theodore Roosevelt

  36. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
    -Henry Kissinger

  37. I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.
    -Lance Armstrong

  38. You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day.
    -Cotton Fitzsimmons, head coach-Phoenix Suns

  39. We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.
    -Charles Swindoll

  40. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
    -Mark Twain

  41. The "as if" principle works. Act "as if" you could and you'll find that you can. Act "as if" you like a person and you'll find a friendship.
    -Norman Vincent Peale

  42. What really matters is what you do with what you have.
    -Shirley Lord

  43. Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. -Tallulah Bankhead

  44. I believe we never fail at anything. Every time we create something we are successful at creation. But sometimes we make poor choices about what we create.
    -Unknown

  45. Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.
    -Unknown

  46. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
    -Seneca

  47. I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
    -Elbert Hubbard

  48. Control your own destiny or someone else will.
    -Jack Welch

  49. It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
    -Margeret Bonnano

  50. You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take that away.
    -Clark Moustakas

  51. Today is worth two tomorrows
    -Ben Franklin

  52. Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of how you view them.
    -Unknown

  53. A man is what he thinks about all day long.
    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  54. It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
    -Longfellow

  55. Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.
    -Dr. Robert Anthony

  56. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
    -Unknown

  57. If I spent as much time doing the things I worry about getting done as I do worrying about doing them, I wouldn't have anything to worry about.
    -Beryl Pfizer

  58. There is only one success, to be able to spend your own life in your own way.
    -Christopher Morley

  59. Our life is what our thoughts make of it.
    -Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 a.d.)

  60. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
    -Dr. Denis Waitley

  61. Life's strict rule is this: you get more of what you focus on.
    -Marsha Sinetar

  62. Every man's work is always a portrait of himself.
    -Samuel Butler

  63. You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning
    -Barbara Sher

  64. I can complain because rosebushes have thorns, or I can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
    -Unknown

  65. If you know you're going to look back on today and laugh, you might as well laugh now.
    -Unknown

  66. Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.
    -David Allen

  67. The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
    -Harold Taylor

  68. I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.
    -Jim Rohn

  69. You and I possess within ourselves, at every moment, under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives.
    -Wemer Erhard

  70. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
    -Norman Vincent Peale

  71. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do ... Explore. Dream. Discover.
    -Mark Twain

  72. I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.
    -George Burns

  73. Work shared is halved. Joy shared is doubled.
    -Unknown

  74. The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
    -Benjamin Franklin

  75. Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
    -Abraham Lincoln

  76. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
    -Unknown

  77. To be happy, drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time".
    -Smiley Blanton, M.D.


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