Uplifting Quotes & Sayings

Here is a huge selection of uplifting quotes that I personally find very enlightening and really make me think. Browse through them leisurely, ponder on each of them and let them sink in. Sometimes a short quote can be enough to trigger a huge change, so don't over look their power. Happy reading!

"There are only 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.

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn"- Alvin Toffler

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us"- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the REALIST adjusts his sails"- (author unknown)

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on"- Robert Frost

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake"- Marie Beyon Ray

"My dad always used to say, "If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You have nothing to lose"- Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5

"Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out"- John Wooden

"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted"- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing"- Will Rogers

"The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility"- Leland Kaiser

"The best way to predict the future is to create it"- Jason Kaufmann

"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves ... let us be above such transparent egotism"- Will Durant

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver.

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful"...Buddha

"We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves”

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens." - Louise L. Hay

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." - Buddha.

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.” - Eric Hoffer

“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” - James Thurber

"Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.” - William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” - Anatole France.

“Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.” - Buddha. [paraphrased]

“Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.” - Alfred Painter

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” - Denis Waitley

"You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” - G. K. Chesterton

“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” - Johannes A. Gaertner.

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” - Melodie Beattie.

"The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and evey man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.” - Elbert Hubbard.

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” - Elbert Hubbard.

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.” - Frank Crane.

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” - Richard Bach

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.” - Thomas H Huxley

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” - Albert Camus.

“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.” - Bertrand Russel.

“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.” - Brother David Steindl-Rast.

“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” - Carl Jung.

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.” - John Milton.

“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.” - Margaret Bonnano.

“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.” - Martha Washington.

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” - Mohandas K Gandhi.

“Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” - Nathanial Hawthorne

“Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.."
” - ANONYMOUS

“"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.Dream. Discover"
” - MARK TWAIN

“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” - JIM ROHN

"If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven"
” - NAPOLEON HILL

“"The beginning is always today, always this moment"
Variation of a quote by” - MARY WOLLSTONECROFT

“It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop!" - CONFUCIUS

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