75 Uplifting Quotes & Sayings to Inspire When Life Gets Tough
Uplifting Quotes and Sayings
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” —Colin Powell
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” —Christopher Reeve
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.” —William James
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.” —Helen Keller
“All bad things, like good things, must end.” —Nihar Sharma
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” —Buddha
“That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” —Robert H Schuller
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass
“You can only be yourself everybody else is taken.” —Oscar Wilde
“You’ve got one life to live. Make this one count.” —Kevin Ngo
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” —Mario Fernandez
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” —Zig Ziglar
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” —Duke Ellington
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” —Abraham Lincoln
“The first step is you have to say that you can.” —Will Smith
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” —Alan Kay
“It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.” —Confucius
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” —Kenji Miyazawa
“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” —Martin Luther King
“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” —Chinese Proverb
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” —Chinese Proverb
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.” —Washington Irving
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” —Willie Nelson
“Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.” —Joe Paterno
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” —John Wooden
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” —Napoleon Hill
“There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.” —C. S. Lewis
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” —Richard Bach
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” —Oprah Winfrey
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” —William James
“Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.” —Napoleon Hill
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” —Lyndon B. Johnson
“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” —Rob Siltanen
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Nelson Mandela
“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” —Richard L. Evans
“In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” —Les Brown
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” —Rabindranath Tagore
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time.” —Joe Girard
“There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” —Nelson Mandela
“Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.” —Norman Vincent Peale
“To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.” —Barbara DeAngelis
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” —Michael Jordan
Uplifting Quotes to Inspire When Life Gets Tough
“Light tomorrow with today.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” —Christopher Reeve