As human beings, we all go through stressful and disappointing moments in our lives. But we have to train our minds to think positive in spite of difficult situations because doing so directly affects our overall health. Studies have shown that optimistic thinking develops a positive attitude which then leads to a longer lifespan. Thinking positive is a choice. It happens only if we allow it to happen.
In addition, people full of positivity live a better life because they tend to have harmonious relationships with their loved ones. A positive attitude will help notice positive qualities in other people and helps accept their flaws better. You will also learn great coping skills whenever hard times come because you understand that a bad attitude will never resolve anything. Positivity will push you to be better instead of giving up. It will remind you of your capabilities, strengths, and goals whenever you feel like quitting.
If you need a reason to be positive, take a look at these positive thinking quotes we compiled just for you. We hope these quotes inspire you to have a positive attitude starting today!
Positive Thinking Quotes
1. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton
2. With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. – Dr. Wayne W Dyer
3. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale
4. Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but has not solved one yet. – Maya Angelou
5. I’m a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that’s not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiseled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand. – Alicia Keys
6. Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude. – Kirsten Sweetland
7. I have learned that champions aren’t just born; champions can be made when they embrace and commit to life-changing positive habits. – Lewis Howes
8. You will always have ups and downs in your life and your career, but just stay positive and go for it. – Angelique Kerber
9. Surround yourself with positive people and you’ll be a positive person. – Kellie Pickler
10. I’m a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. – Helen McCrory
11. I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place. – Kendrick Lamar
12. Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people’s life. It is positive or negative depending on the values. – Shiv Khera
13. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle
14. An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. – Brian Tracy
15. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
16. Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. – Tony Robbins
17. We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. – Robin Sharma
18. If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right. – Henry Ford
19. No matter what the situation, remind yourself “I have a choice.” – Deepak Chopra
20. All you can change is yourself, but sometimes that changes everything. – Gary W Goldstein
21. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. – Confucius
22. If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone. – John C Maxwell
23. Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. – Mary Tyler Moore
24. I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. – Muhammad Ali
25. We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. – Swami Vivekananda
26. The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.
27. If someone tells you, “You can’t” they really mean, “I can’t.” – Sean Stephenson
28. There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. – W. Clement Stone
29. Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows. – Michael Landon
30. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. – Abraham Lincoln
31. Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out. – Jenn Proske
32. Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people. – Tena Desae
33. Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success. – Shiv Khera
34. Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. – Willie Nelson
35. Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive. – Matt Cameron
36. Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive. – Leah LaBelle
37. Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. – Lyndon B. Johnson
38. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller
39. A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me. David Bailey
40. If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
41. The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. – Robert H Schuller
42. We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. – Anais Nin
43. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas Edison
44. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. – Douglas Adams
45. Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher. – Maya Watson
46. I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. – Mark Twain
47. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – Buddha
48. Hope is a waking dream. – Aristotle
49. The past has no power over the present moment. – Eckhart Tolle
50. Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. – Francesca Reigler
51. I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. – Harvey Fierstein
52. If you want the light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining. – Guy Finley
53. Today is a new beginning, a chance to turn your failures into achievements & your sorrows into so goods. No room for excuses. – Joel Brown
54. I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors. – Joel Osteen
55. Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better. – Stefon Diggs
56. I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers – if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door. – Marla Gibbs
57. Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day. – George Allen, Sr.
58. Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. – Les Brown
59. You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. – Joyce Meyer
60. You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events. – Joel Osteen
61. We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them. – Brandon Jenner
62. I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do. – Heidi Klum
63. I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive. – Yoko Ono
64. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James
65. Correction does much, but encouragement does more. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
66. Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family, and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person’s sense of self-worth. – Anthony Carmona
67. To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. – Tony Dorsett
68. We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community. – Paul Bloom
69. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life. – Joel Osteen
70. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. – Colin Powell
71. When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems. – Stephen Covey
72. Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret. Don – Miguel Ruiz
73. Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word ‘blue’ in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people. – David Carson
74. I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that’s all you’re going to get back. – Kesha
75. God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive. – Edwin Louis Cole
76. When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective. – Harvey Mackay
77. I have moments where I feel incredibly ugly or fat, and it sucks, you know? I’ll usually try to keep a positive attitude because I’m really so grateful for where I am and the life I get to live, but I definitely have to work hard not to feel insecure. – Charlotte McKinney
78. Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits. – William Hazlitt
79. When you think positive, good things happen. – Matt Kemp
80. Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps, they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them. – Jack Canfield
81. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. – Joyce Brothers
82. In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact. – Les Brown
83. Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come. – Henri Nouwen
84. Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. – Khalil Gibran
85. I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up. I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude. – Yani Tseng
86. No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things. – Demi Lovato
87. Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. – Allen Klein
88. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. – Vincent Van Gogh
89. While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun. – Jean Chatzky
90. Whatever you wanna be, just, at the end of the day, if you’re being a good person, which is not hard to be, and you’re putting positive energy into the world, and you’re appreciative and loving to the people around you that care about you and everybody in general, then it’ll work out. – Gnash
91. Leaders must exemplify integrity and earn the trust of their teams through their everyday actions. When you do this, you set high standards for everyone at your company. And when you do so with positive energy and enthusiasm for shared goals and purpose, you can deeply connect with your team and customers. – Marillyn Hewson
92. My father taught my siblings and me the importance of positive values and a strong ethical compass. He showed us how to be resilient, how to deal with challenges, and how to strive for excellence in all that we do. He taught us that there’s nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and passion with an enduring work ethic. – Ivanka Trump
93. Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news. – Ethel Waters
94. The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do. – Kobe Bryant
95. To me, it doesn’t matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win. – Ian Botham
96. You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about. – Sophia Loren
97. Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace. – Carly Fiorina
98. Be true to yourself and surround yourself with positive, supportive people. – Payal Kadakia
99. Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that’s positive and celebrate that. – Tyra Banks
100. Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realization. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings, and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world. – Shari Arison
101. A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is. – Nancy Kress
102. I’ve never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it’s positive or negative. I ignore it. I’ve always had the mindset: ‘No one can challenge me better than myself.’ – Troy Polamalu
103. Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. – Brian Tracy
104. The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy. – Domenico Dolce
105. I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. – Walt Disney
106. The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words. – Johnny Iuzzini
107. My style motto is pretty classic: you give off a positive energy when you wear what you’re most comfortable in. – Petra Collins
108. Delete the negative; accentuate the positive. – Donna Karan
109. Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a happier mood and provide a positive pathway through life’s daily frustrations. – Chuck Norris
110. You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. – Maya Angelou
111. I’m a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, ‘Enjoy life. Celebrate life.’ – Luke Bryan
112. Commitment, belief, and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology. – Donald Johanson
113. A negative attitude is nine times more powerful than a positive attitude. – Bikram Choudhury
114. Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind. – Natalie Massenet
115. Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone. – Rollo May
116. Education should learn from the positive side of gaming – reward, accomplishment, and fun. – Sebastian Thrun
117. The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organization, and participation in a meaningful society. – Noam Chomsky
118. To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. – George Santayana
119. I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you’re infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it’s not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won’t do much good. – Tom Rath
120. I’m all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy. – Kyla Pratt
121. Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it. – Natalie du Toit
122. Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void… it is unthinkable. – Zubin Mehta
123. Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you’ve got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what’s being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth. – Keanu Reeves
124. You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. – Stephen King
125. Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. – Roy T. Bennett,
126. Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. – Roy T. Bennett
127. Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. – Roy T. Bennett
128. It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. – Roy T. Bennett
129. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses. – Alphonse Karr
130. Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once. – Paulo Coelho
