Uplifting Quotes about Life
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
– Maya Angelou
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
– George Bernard Shaw
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
– Unknown
I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
– Curtis Carlson
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
– Nido Qubein
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
– Greg Anderson
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
– Nathanial Branden
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
– Jackie Chan
We don’t need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.
– Basil S. Walsh
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
– Sally Berger
Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.
– Wayne Dyer
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
– Napoleon Hill
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
– Eng’s Principle
Learn from the mistakes of others. You won’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
– Unknown
If your life is free of failures, you’re not taking enough risks.
– Unknown
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
– Confucius
Failure is success if we learn from it.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
– Erik Nupponen
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
– Unknown
Our lives teach us who we are.
– Salman Rushdie
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
– Janet Lane
Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude toward us.
– Earl Nightingale
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
– John Wooden
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
– Robert F. Kennedy
The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
– Bono
Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.
– Napoleon Hill
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
– Anne Frank
Short Uplifting Quotes
If you dream it, you can do it.
– Walt Disney
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
– Christopher Reeve
Don’t go through life, grow through life.
– Eric Butterworth
The first step is you have to say that you can.
– Will Smith
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
– Abraham Lincoln
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
– Napoleon Hill
In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.
– Albert Einstein
The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
– James Allen
Just do what you do best.
– Red Auerbach
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
– Lauren Bacall
Things do not change, we do.
– Henry David Thoreau
Your goals are moving targets.
– Chris Waugh
Dream big and dare to fail.
– Norman D. Vaughan
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
– Diana Scharf Hunt
Whatever you are, be a good one.
– Abraham Lincoln
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
– Prescott Bush
Action is the foundational key to all success.
– Pablo Picasso
If you are feeling down, look up.
– Russell Murphy
Education is the mother of leadership.
– Wendell L. Willkie
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
– Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Positive Uplifting Quotes
Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
– Dale Carnegie
Do not let yourself be forced into doing anything before you are ready.
– Wilbur Wright
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
– L.M. Montgomery
Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.
– Cameron Dokey
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
– Kenji Miyazawa
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
– Alice Walker
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
– John Lennon
Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.
– Mario Fernandez
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
– Stevie Wonder
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
– Henri L. Bergson
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
– Kurt Lewin
If you live in the past, you won’t have a future.
– Russell Murphy
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
– Anita DeFrantz
You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
– Charles C. Noble
Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.
– Michael Friedsam
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
– Brendan Francis
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
– Jim Rohn
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
– Golnik Eric
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
– Joseph Joubert
More Uplifting Quotes
If you can’t afford to do something right, then make darn sure you can afford to do it wrong.
– Charlie Nelson
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
– Albert Schweitzer
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
– Byron Katie
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
– Joseph Campbell
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
– Buddha
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
– Will Rogers
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
– Frederick Douglass
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
– Les Brown
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
– John Ruskin
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
– Jeremy Taylor
A winner makes a commitment. A loser makes promises.
– Unknown
Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
– Bill Tilden
A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.
– Unknown
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
– George Bernard Shaw
If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
– Chinese Proverb
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
– Charles Steinmetz
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
– Mark Twain
When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.
– Unknown
There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.
– Confucius
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
– Chinese Proverb