200+ Positivity Quotes to Keep You Inspired During Difficulties
In a world filled with chaos and negativity, one needs a positive attitude to stay put and sane. Go through these positivity quotes to keep you motivated during challenges.
This article contains positivity quotes to help you in your workplace, in your life, amongst friends and society, even in tough times.
Positivity Quotes for Life
1. “We become what we think about.”– Earl Nightingale
2. Positive attitude causes a chain of reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.” – Wade Boggs
3. “I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.” – Russell Wilson
4. “Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to grow externally.” – Hannah Bronfman
5. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
6. “We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” – Vince Lombardi
7. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”– Abraham Lincoln
8. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?”– Sydney Harris
9. “It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.” – Ellen DeGeneres
10. “It’s amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” – Lindsey Vonn
11. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
12. We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. – Tony Robbins
13. “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
14. “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
15. “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” – Joseph Campbell
16. “If you see the world and yourself through a lens smudged by negativity, then you’ll find much misery. If you look outwards and inwards through a lens brightened by positivity you’ll find much to be happy and appreciative about.” – Henrik Edberg
Positive Quotes for Tough Times
17. “The less you respond to negative people, the more positive your life will become.” – Paulo Coelho
18. “It doesn’t matter what cards you’re dealt. It’s what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.” – Baker Mayfield
19. “One small positive thought can change your whole day.” – Zig Ziglar
20. “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”
21. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
22. “The world you desire can be won. It exists… it is real… it is possible. It’s yours.” – Ayn Rand
23. “One small positive thought can change your whole day.” – Zig Ziglar
24. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addai
25. “But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.”– L. Frank Baum
26. “It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.”– Roy T. Bennett
27. “If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” – Pat Riley
28. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”– George Eliot
29. “All bad things, like good things, must end.” – Nihar Sharma
30. “There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.” – Jane Austen
31. “Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” – Ray Kroc
32. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Walter Bagehot
33. “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” – Mary Lou Retton
34. “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
35. “Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not your liking, change your liking.” – Rick Steves
36. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
37. “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.” – Michael Jordan
38. “The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.”– Eric Thomas
39. “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.”– Robert H Schuller “Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.” – Joe Paterno
40. “You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Positive Quotes for Success
41. “Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm, and genuine people.” – Tena Desae
42. “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
43. “The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.” – Deepika Padukone
44. “Kid, there are heroes and there are legends. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you’ll never go wrong.” – Babe Ruth “Life is tough, and things don’t always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.” – Suga
45. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” – Charles Dickens
46. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”– Viktor Frankl
47. “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” – G.K. Nelson
48. “The past has no power over the present moment.”– Eckhart Tolle
49. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”– Rumi
50. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee
51. “Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”– Anthony J. D’Angelo
52. “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” – Thomas J. Watson
53. “Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” – Theodore Isaac Rubin
54. “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
55. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe that it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh
56. “You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!”– Helen Steiner Rice
57. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino
58. “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese proverb
59. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
60. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer
61. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
62. “Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” – Oliver Wendell Homes
63. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
64. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
65. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele
66. “If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.”
67. “Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.” – John Carmack
68. “Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. “ – Thich Nhat Hanh
69. “If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.” – Malcolm Gladwell
70. “Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day.” – George Allen, Sr.
71. “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them. “- Washington Irving
Positive Quotes for Work
72. “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” – Gail Devers
73. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
74. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”– Duke Ellington
75. “Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”– William James
76. “You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.”– Deepak Chopra
77. “Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it.” – Gertrude B. Elion
78. “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” – Henry J. Kaiser
79. “If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.”– John C Maxwell
80. “I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.”– Michael Jordan
81. “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” – Roy T. Bennett
82. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”– Winston Churchill
83. “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results.”– Wade Boggs
84. “Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly, you are doing the impossible.” – Saint Francis
85. “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
86. “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.”– Theodore Roosevelt
87. “I am the greatest; I said that even before I knew I was.”– Muhammad Ali
88. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
89. “Don’t just “hope” for a positive breakthrough; absolutely know it’s on the way. “ – Marianne Williamson
90. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
91. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” – Frank Ocean
92. “It’s all about the quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” – Philip Green
93. “If you absolutely can’t stay positive, don’t go negative, just cruise neutral for a while until you can get back up.”– Terri Guillemets
94. “Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + Action = Luck.” – John C. Maxwell
95. “The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!” – Brian Tracy
96. “The harder you work for something you love, the more meaningful your life becomes.”
97. Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. – Benjamin Disraeli
98. The first step is for you to say that you can. -Will Smith
99. “If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.”– Pat Riley
100. “I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.”– Roger Federer
101. “Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.” – Brad Henry
102. “We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” – Marie Curie
103. “The real test is not whether you avoid failure because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” – Barack Obama
104. “We all naturally want to become successful… we also want to take shortcuts. And it’s easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.” – Apolo Ohno
105. “The world doesn’t always give you what you want, but it often gives you what you need.” – Naval Ravikant
106. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey
107. “Living our life deeply and with happiness, having time to care for our loved ones – this is another kind of success, another kind of power, and it is much more important.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
108. “It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”– Robert H. Schuller
109. “Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” – Joseph Barbara
110. “I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”– Mark Twain
Positive Quotes for a Positive Attitude
111. “Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.”– Helen Keller
112. “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
113. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
114. “Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.” – Carl Bard
115. “Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.”– Lou Holtz
116. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”– Lyndon B. Johnson
117. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.”
118. “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” – Shiv Khera
119. No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn’t matter how hard you hit back. It’s about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That’s how you win. – Sylvester Stallone
120. “A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.” – Joyce Brothers
121. “Desire is the key to motivation, but it is determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” – Mario Andretti
122. “When you fail, that is when you get closer to success.” – Stephen Richards
123. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
124. “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 them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.” – Jack Canfield
“125. If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
126. “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” – Abraham Lincoln
127. “Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.” – Gary Keller
128. “To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Gafka
129. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
130. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
131. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.” – John Rockefeller
132. “Your limitation – it’s only your imagination.”
133. “Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.” – Brian Tracy
134. “You know what’s just as powerful as a good cup of coffee in the morning? Starting your day with some good, loving thoughts. It can change how your whole day unfolds.”– Karen Salmansohn
135. “Pessimism never won any battle.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
136. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen
137. “Be brave when you are scared, and humble when you are victorious.”
138. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
139. “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard
140. “The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.” – Malcolm Forbes
141. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”– Colin R. Davis
142. “A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.” – Unknown
143. “Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.” – Roy T. Bennett
144. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”– Jim Rohn
145. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
146. “Write it in your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
147. “A positive atmosphere nurtures a positive attitude, which is required to take positive action.” – Richard M. DeVos
148. You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.” – Dr. Seuss
149. “Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.” – Bonnie Blair
150. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb
151. “We are limited, but we can push back the borders of our limitations.” – Stephen R. Covey
152. “A little progress each day ends with big results.” – Unknown
153. “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” –Thomas S. Monson
154. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.”– Thomas J. Watson
155. “It always seems impossible until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela
156. “All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
157. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
158. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” – Zig Ziglar
159. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
160. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
161. “Train your mind to see the good in every situation.” – Unknown
Motivational Quotes for a Positive Mindset
162. “You reap fruit from the same kind of seed you’ve been sowing. You can’t talk negative and expect to live positive.” – Joel Osteen
163. “You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.” – Zig Ziglar
164. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”– Winston Churchill
165. “Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing.” – John C. Maxwell
166. “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”– Colin Powell
167. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”– John Wooden
168. “Don’t worry about failures; worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”– Jack Canfield
169. “Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Francesca Reigler
170. “Positive thinking and visualizing my success were my keys to doing well.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki
171. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”– Colin R. Davis
172. “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” – Les Brown
173. “When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.” – Paulo Coelho
174. “Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone’s life in a very positive way are better.” – Tim Howard
175. “You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” – Les Brown
176. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
177. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”– Milton Berle
178. “You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.” – Warren Beatty
179. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
180. ” There isn’t anything that I cannot be or do or have.” – Abraham Hicks
181. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
182. “While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.” – Benjamin Franklin
183. “If someone tells you, “You can’t,” they really mean, “I can’t.”– Sean Stephenson
184. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle
Positive Quotes for Love and Friendship
185. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
186. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
187. “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.” – Carl Rogers
189. “Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too.” – Anonymous
190. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”– Thomas Edison
191. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
192. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”- Winston Churchill
193. “Keep a smile on your face. Keep a spring in your step.” – Joel Osteen
194. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
195. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
196. “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”– Jon Bon Jovi
197. “When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.”– Paulo Coelho
198. “The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us. ” – Paul Coelho
199. “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
200. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
201. “Every day may not be good… but there’s something good in every day.” – Alice Morse Earle
202. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
203. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
204. “Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
205. “Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy
206. “To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the ‘what is next’, of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.” – Mark Twain
207. “The moment where you doubt you can fly, you cease forever being able to do it.” – Peter Pan J.M. Barrie
208. “Staying positive does not mean everything will turn out okay. Rather, it means you will be okay no matter how things turn out.” – Unknown
209. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson
210. “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” – Madam C.J Walker
211. “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – Paul Mccartney
212. “Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.” – C.S. Lewis
213. “The positive energy and love we give to others heal our own wounds.” – Angie Karan
214. “Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone’s life in a very positive way are better.”– Tim Howard
215. “To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.” – Aliko Dangote
216. “You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.”– C.S Lewis
217. “When you are inspired in your work, everything seems to fall into place.” – Wayne Dyer
218. “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”– Kobe Bryant
219. “Today is a new beginning, a chance to turn your failures into achievements & your sorrows into so good. No room for excuses.”– Joel Brown
Cling to the notion of achievement and never forget your inherent potential for greatness. Nobody who has achieved success has done it by holding onto their negative beliefs.
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CSN Team.
