These uplifting quotes will inspire you. Uplifting offering or providing hope, encouragement, salvation, etc, or inspiring happiness, optimism.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging uplifting quotes, uplifting sayings, and uplifting proverbs.
Famous Uplifting Quotes
- “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” ~ Joyce Meyer
- “Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. And if things don’t work out, just take another shot.” ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
- “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ~ Haruki Murakami
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“Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive” ~ Ratan Tata
- “Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.” ~ Og Mandino
- “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” ~ Fred Rogers
- “Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting, and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.” ~ Ralph Marston
- “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?” ~ Max Lucado
- “Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.” ~ Alice Walker
- “Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi , Positive uplifting quotes
- “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
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“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible” ~ Christopher Reeve
- “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.” ~ Robert Fulghum
- “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” ~ Democritus
- “Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?” ~ Joel Osteen
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“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” ~ John Lennon
- “When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.” ~ Corrie Ten Boom
- “Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.” ~ Thomas Merton
- “Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day.” ~ Gary Allan
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.” ~ Joe Paterno
- “This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!” ~ Sivananda
- “If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today” ~ Nhat Hanh
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“We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them.” ~ Kevin Myers
- “Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people — people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.” ~ Jack Canfield
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!” ~ Robert H. Schuller
- “You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.” ~ Melissa Etheridge
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“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” ~ Leonard Cohen
- “I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” ~ Martha Washington
- “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” ~ Rumi
- “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” ~ Roald Dahl
- “Before you leave the house, you need to make up your mind that you’re going to stay positive and enjoy the day no matter what comes your way. You have to decide ahead of time.” ~ Joel Osteen
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“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ~ John Wooden
- “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean
- “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ~ Confucius
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“It’s ok to not be ok, but it’s not ok to stay that way.” ~ Perry Noble
- “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “The universe is always speaking to us… sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.” ~ Nancy Thayer
- “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” ~ Beverly Sills
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“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” ~ John Wooden
- “When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” ~ Tecumseh , Uplifting quotes about life
- “It’s your ability to inspire and uplift other people that matters, not your ability to outdo them.” ~ Doug Larson
- “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.” ~ Sid Lovett
- “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.” ~ John Spence
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“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “If you don’t value your time, neither will others.” ~ Kim Garst
- “Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them” ~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Here’s what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.” ~ Thomas Kinkade
