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Today Positive Quotes ideas
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” — Tony Robbins
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” — C.S. Lewis
“Everything is hard before it is easy.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” — Anne Frank
“Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” — Maya Angelou
“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” — Rumi
Positive Quotes for Men
“You can make anything by writing.” — C.S. Lewis
“Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.” — J. K. Rowling
“Writing is the painting of the voice.” — Voltaire
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” — William Wordsworth
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” — Toni Morrison
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” — Stephen King
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” — Robert Frost
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” — Anne Frank
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.” — Maya Angelou
“A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You must go after it with a club.” — Jack London
“If you have no critics, you will likely have no success.” — Malcolm X
“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” — Oscar Wilde
“You are your best thing.” — Toni Morrison
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” — Brené Brown
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” — Oprah Winfrey
“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” — e.e. cummings
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
“In your life expect some trouble. But when you worry, you make it double. But don’t worry, be happy, be happy now.” — Bobby McFerrin
Positive Quotes for Teens
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” — Stephen King
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” — Amy Poehler
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” — Dalai Lama
“You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.” — Bear Grylls
“The world is more malleable than you think, and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.” — Bono
“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” — Carol Burnett
“Life is tough my darling, but so are you.” — Stephanie Bennett Henry
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
“Talk to yourself like you would someone you love.” — Brené Brown
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” — Robert H. Schuller
“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited of what could go right.” — Tony Robbins
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” — Suzy Kassem
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” — Vince Lombardi
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” — J.K. Rowling
“Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” — Emily Dickinson
Positive Images and Quotes
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” — Haruki Murakami
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” — William Shakespeare
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” — Plato
“Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.” — Emily Dickinson
“Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.” — Sylvia Plath
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” — C.S. Lewis
“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” — Voltaire
“Life is tough my darling, but so are you.” — Stephanie Bennett Henry
“Self-awareness and self-love matter. Who we are is how we lead.” — Brené Brown
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” — Stephen King
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” — Virginia Woolf
“The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.” — George Eliot
“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.” — Mark Twain
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” — Kurt Vonnegut
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe
“My ambition is to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books—what other men do not say in whole books.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Staying Positive in Tough Times Quotes
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” — George Orwell
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
“If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” — Toni Morrison
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.” — Emily Dickinson
“I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” — Gabriel García Márquez
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Be a good person, it is easier than pretending to be a good person.” — Nitin Namdeo
“The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for.” — Ernest Hemingway
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” — Virginia Woolf (repeat to reinforce)
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.” — Ray Bradbury
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” — Stephen King
“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” — Margaret Atwood
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” — Richard Bach
“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.” — Aristotle
“Never mistake motion for action.” — Ernest Hemingway
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” — Jack London
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.” — Stephen King
Positive Quotes for Kids
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker
“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” — Toni Morrison
“Where there is a woman there is magic.” — Ntozake Shange
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” — Maya Angelou
“Even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.” — Stephen Chbosky
“The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” — J.M. Barrie
“I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward.” — Charlotte Brontë
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” — Mary Shelley
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” — John Green
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” — Ralph Ellison
“First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!” — Ray Bradbury
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself.” — Orison Swett Marden
“We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.” — Orison Swett Marden
“The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and look at it, until it shines.” — Emily Dickinson
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” — Gustave Flaubert
“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself… it’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless.” — Harper Lee
Positive Inner Strength Quotes
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.” — Terry Brooks
“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” — Tom Stoppard
“When you are describing a shape, or sound, or tint, don’t state the matter plainly, but put it in a hint.” — Lewis Carroll
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” — Mother Teresa (widely attributed)
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
“An unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” — W. Clement Stone
“We become what we think about.” — Earl Nightingale
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” — Charles Swindoll
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” — Babe Ruth
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” — Amelia Earhart
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” — Albert Einstein
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” — Maya Angelou
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see further.” — Thomas Carlyle
“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent Van Gogh
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
“Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan
Positive Self Talk Quotes
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” — Dalai Lama
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” — Pablo Picasso
“You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.” — Erica Jong
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” — Latin Proverb
“You become what you believe.” — Oprah Winfrey
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C. S. Lewis
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker
“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” — William Arthur Ward
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” — Audrey Hepburn
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha
Positive New Journey Quotes
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.” — Richard Wagner
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” — John Lennon
“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.” — George W. Crane
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” — William Butler Yeats
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” — Colin Powell
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden.” — Oscar Wilde
“Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.” — John Harrigan
“You are never too small to make a difference.” — Greta Thunberg
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” — Jim Rohn
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” — Desmond Tutu
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” — Mother Teresa
“Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.” — Rabbi Hyman Schachtel
“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.” — Alice Morse Earle
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive.” — Marcus Aurelius
Positive Quotes for New Beginnings
“Light tomorrow with today.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” — Elbert Hubbard
“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.” — Robert F. Kennedy
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” — Sydney J. Harris
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” — Alphonse Karr
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” — Christopher Reeve
“Happiness is the highest good.” — Aristotle
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost
“Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it’s not out there is that it’s inside us.” — Sonja Lyubomirsky
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” — Booker T. Washington
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” — Seneca
“Happiness is only real when shared.” — Christopher McCandless (from Into the Wild)
“Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much.” — Norman Vincent Peale
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