Positive Quotes about Life

Regardless of who we are, there are times when a little inspiration is needed. Thankfully, throughout history there have been wise and prolific individuals whose achievements and contributions to mankind still inspire and motivate us all. So, whether you are looking for some short but powerful words to inspire others or you just need a little inspiration for yourself. Peruse this list of some of the greatest minds in history and present day and take comfort in the fact that many have come before us, endured far more and came out smiling with helpful words to benefit others others.

20 years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the one’s you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover

~ Mark Twain

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.

~ Ron Jaworski

The fact is that in order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
~ Sydney Smith

 

 

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time.
~ H. W. Shaw

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won.
~ Gandhi

Positive thinking won’t let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

~ Zig Ziglar

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

~ Steve Jobs

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

~ Charles Dickens

Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don’t spend it by dwelling on unhappy things.

~ Celestine Chua

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
~ Josiah Gilbert Holland

 

 

 

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Pessimism never won any battle.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
~ Christopher Morley

 

Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke.
~ Eliot Wiggington

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Either attempt it not, or succeed.
~ Ovid

Live each day as if your life had just begun.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; happiness; but few are going by the same road.
~ Charles Caleb Colton

 

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
~ Epictetus

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
~ Ben Stein

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
~ Albert Einstein

“If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.”

~ James A. Garfield

 

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
~ Francoise de Maintenon

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
~ Oscar Wilde

 

Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.

~ Buddha

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
~ Helen Keller

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
~ Edward Gibbon

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~ Dale Carnegie

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.
~ English Proverb

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
~ Albert Einstein

I am not strange, I am just not normal.
~ Salvador Dali

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
~ Democritus

success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
~ Winston Churchill

We think about all of our tomorrows, but we don’t know how many they are, so let’s start making the most of our Todays!

~ Ivana Trump

 

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.

~ James Dean

 

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
~ Albert Schweitzer

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

~ Abe Lincoln

Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
~ Sophocles

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
~ Napoleon Hill

Every noble work is at first impossible.
~ Thomas Carlyle

“Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

~ Steve Jobs

 

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
~ Euripides

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
~ Woody Allen

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
~ Napoleon Hill

“History shows us that the people who end up changing the world – the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries – are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.”

~ John Eliot

Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with.
~ Robert Leighton

 

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
~ Arnold Bennett

 

It is not enough to aim, you must hit.
~ Italian Proverb

 

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
~ John Stuart Mills

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
~ Albert Einstein

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
~ Mahatma Ghandi

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
~ Napoleon Hill

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