Are you finding life difficult at the moment? Are you struggling with issues that are getting you down? Suffering from a lack of self-motivation? Fed up with dealing with negative people? You need to hear a few words of encouragement that will remind you that your life will get better. That we all take knocks and get setbacks, but with fortitude and persistence, you will prevail. Here’s a list I’ve put together of the top 100 best uplifting quotes about life.
My Top 100 Uplifting Quotes
100/ Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality. – Malala Yousafzai
99/ The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. – Thomas Jefferson
98/ Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston S. Churchill
97/ What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. – Oscar Wilde
96/ When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. – Wilma Rudolph
95/ Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. – Theodore N. Vail
94/ I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. – Gustave Flaubert
93/ Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. – Joseph Campbell
92/ If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. – Dalai Lama
91/ Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. – E. E. Cummings
90/ A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
89/ Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. – Maya Angelou
88/ Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. – L.M. Montgomery
87/ Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. – Jim Rohn
86/ Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. – Vaibhav Shah
85/ In a gentle way, you can shake the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
84/ Each day provides its own gifts. – Marcus Aurelius
83/ I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me. – Zane Grey
82/ Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
81/ It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. – Amelia Barr
80/ Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman
79/ Blaze your own glittery, sparkly, fiery, shimmering path. Surround yourself with the things that make you shine. Create your bubble and thrive in it. – Cara Alwill Leyba
78/ Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
77/ We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa
76/ The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. – Bertrand Russell
75/ The power of imagination makes us infinite. – John Muir
74/ Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines. – Leroy Satchel Paige
73/ I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. – Unknown
72/ A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. – Joyce Meyer
71/ Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. – Publilius Syrus
70/ Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. – Unknown
69/ Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett
68/ Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. – Robert Collier
67/ The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. – Ayn Rand
66/ 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
65/ Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf. – Rabindranath Tagore
64/ Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
63/ You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. – James Allen
62/ Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. – Helen Keller
61/ I dwell in possibility. – Emily Dickinson
60/ A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can’t be good at everything. – Kelly Williams Brown
59/ Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy
58/ It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville
57/ He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. – William Samuel Johnson
56/ 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
55/ The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. – Seneca
54/ We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King
53/ There is no education like adversity. – Benjamin Disraeli
52/ Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. – Albert Schweitzer
51/ If you’re going through hell keep going. – Winston Churchill
50/ You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher
49/ Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existence. – Sarah Dessen
48/ 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
47/ The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. – Unknown
46/ 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
45/ I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
44/ Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote
43/ Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. – Les Brown
42/ In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. – Robert Frost
41/ Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. – Jacques Prevert
40/ In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. – Lee Iacocca
39/ You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. – George Lorimer
38/ The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. – Chinese Proverb
37/ One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now. – Caroline Webb
36/ Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit. – Napoleon Hill
35/ If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglas
34/ The first step is you have to say that you can. – Will Smith
33/ What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. – Colette
32/ If it’s not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it’s a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between. – Sara Evans
31/ The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
30/ The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. – Mark Caine
29/ In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me. – Julia Cameron
28/ Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun
27/ The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln
26/ Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. – Robert Schuller
25/ Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. – Francis Chan
24/ To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. – Mike Gafka
23/ The dreamers are the saviors of the world. – James Allen
22/ The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. – son Mandela
21/ If you embrace your flaws, nobody can use them against you. – Cara Alwill Leyba
20/ Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. – Charles R. Swindoll
19/ All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. – Earl Nightingale
18/ If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit
17/ All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
16/ Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James
15/ Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. – Mario Fernandez
14/ Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. – Marilyn Monroe
13/ You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing. – Philippos
12/ In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein
11/ Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill
The Top 10 Uplifting Quotes
10/ Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you. – Heidi Johnson
9/ The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape. – Bono
8/ Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
7/ If I persist long enough I will win. – Og Mandino
6/ Light tomorrow with today. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
5/ It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop. – Confucius
4/ Choose to be optimistic, it feels better. – Dalai Lama
3/ It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela
2/ Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. – Christopher Reeve
1/ The best is yet to be. – Robert Browning
I hope you enjoyed my list of the top 100 uplifting quotes about life. Please share on Facebook and thanks for reading!
