100 Positive Quotes to Help You Always Stay Positive About Life

If you're looking for positive quotes and uplifting sayings to boost your mood in 2024, these 100 stay positive quotes will help you look on the bright side—even when your day starts out on the totally wrong foot.

From uplifting sayings that encourage a sense of optimism to feel-good affirmations that'll help you get your "glass half full" attitude back, this list of inspiring "stay positive" quotes, thoughts, and messages can help during uncertain times.

100 Stay Positive Quotes

1. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” —Walt Whitman

2. “Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.” —Jodi Picoul

3. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” —Tony Robbins

4. “You can have it all. Just not all at once.” —Oprah Winfrey

5. “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

6. "Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.” —Jim Thompson

7. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” —Earl Nightingale

8. "Train your mind to see the good in every situation." —Unknown

9. "If you can stay positive in a negative situation, you win." —Unknown

10. "Stay positive. Better days are on their way." —Unknown

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11. "Only in the darkness can you see the stars." —Martin Luther King, Jr.

12. “I dwell in possibility.” —Emily Dickinson

13. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee

14. “A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” —Joyce Meyer

15. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi

16. “Be yourself and people will like you.” —Jeff Kinney

17. “Each day provides its own gifts.” —Marcus Aurelius

18. “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

19. "You do not find the happy life. You make it." —Thomas S. Monson

20. "Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen." —Deep Roy

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21. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” —Roald Dahl

22. "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory." —Dr. Seuss

23. "The most wasted of days is one without laughter." —E. E. Cummings

24. "To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks." —Bill Gates

25. “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

26.“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou

27. "What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

28. "The moment where you doubt you can fly, you cease for ever being able to do it." —Peter Pan J.M. Barrie

29. “Think and wonder. Wonder and think.” —Dr. Suess

30. "Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning." —S. C. Lourie

31. "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." —Buddha

32. "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." —John F. Kennedy

33. "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." —Aesop

34. "Most people are nice when you finally see them." —Harper Lee

35. "When you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while." —Lucy Maud Montgomery

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36. "What we think, we become." —Buddha

37. "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." —Robin Williams

38. "Whoever is happy will make others happy too." —Anne Frank

39. "Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others." —Rosa Parks

40.  "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." —Walt Disney

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41. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do." —H.Jackson Brown Jr

42. “Salvation lies within.” —Warden Samuel Norton

43. "Jump in with both feet and be brave." —Sujit Choudhry

44. "If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels." —Tennessee Williams

45. "Always let your conscience be your guide." —Jiminy Cricket

46. "Do what is true to your soul." —Malini Saba

47. "I want to reach my potential, impact my world, and leave a legacy." —Seth Buechley

48. "Today is a good day to try." —Quasimodo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

49. "Make your life matter and have fun doing it." —Aaron Hurst

50. "Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” —Dalai Lama

51. "Surround yourself with positive people." —Rod Rohrich

52. "We have to collectively work together to improve the world." —Samuel Strauch

53. "Base your relationships on the right values." —Dick Gephardt

54. "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." —Mahatma Gandhi

55. "The joy of life is becoming a person you are proud of." —Bill Orender

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56. "The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have." —Yiddish Proverb

57. "My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." —Jack Layton

58. “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” —Rabindranath Tagore

59. "When you realize how precious and fragile life is, it changes your whole perspective." —Ryan O’Donnell

60. "The next choice is the most important choice." —George Wells

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61. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”—Maya Angelou

62. “When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” —Wilma Rudolph

63. "We may not have hit the peak yet, but we are on the journey up." —Brian Nhira

64. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” —John Muir

65. "Do good and good will come to you." —Adam Lowy

66. "Make a determination that you will live your purpose today." —Daniel Budzinski

67. "Recognize what you have inside you." —Eric Pulier

68. “The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” —Bertrand Russell

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69. "Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams." —Brad Sugars

70. "May your troubles be less and your blessings be more." —Irish Blessing

71. "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."  –Booker T. Washington

72. “Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.”—Mahatma Gandhi

73. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” —Lao Tzu

74. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” —Buddha

75. "Some men see things as they are and say why—I dream things that never were and say why not.” —George Bernard Shaw

76. "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." —Albert Einstein

77. "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." —Florence Nightingale

78. "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." —Buckminster Fuller

79. "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." —Chinese Proverb

80. "Take the first step." —Darius Fisher

81. "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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82. "One day or day one. It’s your choice." —Unknown

83. "I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun." —Katherine Hepburn

84. "When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." —John Lennon

85. "We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one." —Confucius

86. "Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any." —Danielle Fotopoulis

87. "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." —Omar Khyyam

88. "You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." —Oprah Winfrey

89. "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." —William Shakespeare

90. "Tough times don't last. Tough people do." —Unknown

91. "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." —Mae West

92. "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." —Ralph Waldo Emerson