Our attitude has the ability to dramatically impact our experiences, for better or worse. On difficult days, embracing an optimistic mindset can transform challenges into opportunities. Likewise, positively reflecting on good times allows us to appreciate life's blessings even more.
Of course, delicious food brings its own types of comfort. However, inspirational and motivational messages can nourish our spirit in a uniquely uplifting way. The following encouraging quotes are straight from the heart and aimed at enhancing well-being. Taking them to heart has potential to improve your outlook and quality of life.
Positive Motivational Quotes on Hard Work:
"Luck favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur
"Nothing worth having comes easy." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you." - William Jennings Bryan
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon
"If you think something is worth doing, do it. If you don't, don't." - Helen Gurley Brown
"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile." - Roger Staubach
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." - Thomas Edison
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work." - Thomas Edison
"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Paine
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible!'" - Audrey Hepburn
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan
Positive Motivational Quotes on Persistence:
"Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge
" If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." - H.G. Wells
"Everyone smiles in the same language." - Proverb
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"Fall down seven times and get up eight." - Japanese proverb
"One person with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
"Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up." - Thomas Wayne (from Batman Begins)
"They can because they think they can." - Virgil
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." - William Edward Hickson
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." - Helen Keller
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - J.K. Rowling
“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
Positive Motivational Quotes on Thinking:
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude." - Zig Ziglar
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.” - Henry Ford
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives." - Jamie Anderson
"You become what you think about most of the time, so guard your thoughts well." - Unknown
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
"Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny." - Mahatma Gandhi
"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results." - Wade Boggs
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life." - Aristotle
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." - Epictetus
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin
"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration." - James Allen
"You are what you think. All that you are arises with your thoughts. With your thoughts you make the world." - Buddha
Positive Motivational Quotes on Believing in Yourself:
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” - Thomas Jefferson
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - J.K. Rowling
Positive Motivational Quotes on Taking Risks:
"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
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now." - Chinese Proverb
"Believe in yourself! You have the ability and the power within to conquer any challenge before you." - Robert Tew
"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." - Peter T. Mcintyre
"He who says he can and he who says he can't are both usually right." - Confucius
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb
"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine." - Roy T. Bennett
"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve." - Mary Kay Ash
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain
"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall." - Vince Lombardi
Positive Motivational Quotes on Chasing Your Dreams:
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
"If you want to live your dreams, you must be willing to let go of what is holding you back. You can't carry around excess baggage that's only going to weigh you down and keep you from achieving your goals." - Les Brown
"Somebody once asked, could I spare a few minutes for an interview? And I said, yes, yes, at last I've plenty of time." - John Lennon
"It's always too early to quit." - Norman Vincent Peale
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
Positive Motivational Quotes on Learning from Failure:
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas A. Edison
"Fall seven times and stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." - J.K. Rowling
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"Every failure is a step to success." - Sachin Tendulkar
" Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"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." - Michael Jordan
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." - Truman Capote
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"Failure is an event, never a person." - William D. Howell
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future." - Steve Jobs
"Successful people are not gifted; they just learn early how to say no to the wrong opportunities and focus on the right ones." - Unknown
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