Positive Thinking - Inspirational Quotes about Life and Encouragement

Through the struggles of life, it’s good to think positive. Many times that is difficult to do, especially with all the bad news we hear on the television everyday. I’ve struggled with negativity for much of my life. These days I try to think positively. I surround myself with positive people, those who will uplift me instead of put me down. I do what I can to encourage others, and try to have a giving attitude.

inspirational quotes about life Below, I share a huge list of the best and most encouraging quotes on positive thinking. Some of these are famous quotes from well known people.

There is a lot of wisdom in these sayings. Positive thinking helps achieve the seemingly impossible! I have achieved so much in my own life by regularly reading some of these, and applying them in my own life.

Read these encouraging quotes, and reread them.

Be inspired and uplifted. Apply them.

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100 Positive Thinking Quotes about Life that will Encourage and Inspire

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind” - Dr. Seuss
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – John Maxwell
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
“Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” – Unknown
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins
“Live everyday like it’s your last day on earth” – Unknown
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me?” – Brian Tracy
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart" - Helen Keller Read
“I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” – W. Clement Stone
“Believe you can and you're halfway there” - Theodore Roosevelt
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” – Confucius
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” - Joshua J. Marine
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible' ” - Audrey Hepburn Read
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.” – Unknown
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Eliot
“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” –Christopher Columbus
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” - Denis Waitley
“That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
“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
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby
“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” - Jimmy Dean
“Go where you are celebrated – not tolerated. If they can’t see the real value of you, it’s time for a new start.” – Unknown
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right." - Henry Ford
“Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone..” – Unknown
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself” – George Bernard Shaw
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” - Roy Goodman
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant” - Robert Louis Stevenson
“Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will.” – Unknown
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back” - Arthur Rubinstein
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” – Jim Morrison
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu
“Positive thinking sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and can achieve the impossible.” – Unknown
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive” – Howard Thurman
“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey
“We don’t meet people by accident, they are meant to cross our path for a reason” – Unknown
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like” – Will Rogers
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional” – Unknown
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
“Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.” – Unknown
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle” - Albert Einstein
“In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away” - Shing Xiong
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa
“Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.” – Unknown
“Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours” – Zig Ziglar
“Do or Do Not. There is no Try” - Yoda
“When you say “It’s hard”, it actually means “I’m not strong enough to fight for it”. Stop saying its hard. Think positive!” – Unknown
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us” – Alexander Graham Bell
“You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it” - Albert Einstein
“It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” – Mae Jemison
“We must let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us” - Joseph Campbell
“Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.” – Unknown
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield
“Change is inevitable. Progress is optional” – Tony Robbins
“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.” – Unknown
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there” – Will Rogers
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Unknown
“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown
“People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you” – Unknown
“Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. how can anyone see how awesome you are if you can’t see it yourself?” – Unknown
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference” – Reinhold Niebuhr
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. it means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” – Unknown
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” –Zig Ziglar
“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
“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
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“ Do what makes YOU happy.” – Malcolm Matthews
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
“Love what you have. Need what you want. Accept what you receive. Give what you can. Always remember, what goes around, comes around…” – Unknown
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
“Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.” – Unknown
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar