Short Positive Quotes

To have a positive attitude is to choose to live life with joy, compassion and grace… to have the freedom to love, find our purpose, and follow our passions fearlessly.

I have put together a collection of short positive quotes and inspirational messages that offer this timeless advice on positive living and how it allows us to become the best version of ourselves. I hope that the wisdom and power of these quotes inspires and empowers you.

“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

 

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”― Vincent Van Gogh

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. – Maya Angelou

Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.”—Author Uknown

 

short positive quotes about happiness

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. – Kurt Vonnegut

 

“Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.” – Rachel Marie Martin

But the most beautiful things in life are not just things. They’re people and places, memories and pictures. They’re feelings and moments and smiles and laughter. – Unknown

“Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of the fire. Happiness is something we are.”

-John B. Sheerin

 

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you’re sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.” ― Max Lucado, When God Whispers Your Name

 

“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 someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

-George Washington Carver 

positive quotes about the strength of the human spirit

“There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.”― Karen Horney

 

 “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.- Ronald Reagan

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. – Mark Twain

 

short positive quotes on living a purposeful life

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”

-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Try new things, step out of your comfort zone, take risks, do things in ways you’ve never done them before, ask for help, surround yourself with self-actualized people, become obsessed with the fact that you have one go-round on this planet as the you that is you, and realize how precious and important it is not to squander that. —-Jen Sincero

“The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.” —Jim Rohn

 

“Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was given to us to console us for what we are.”- Mack McGinnis

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never be afraid to try something new because life gets boring when you stay within the limits of what you already know. ~ Anonymous

 

“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.”― Steve Maraboli

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
― Cecil Beaton

Short Positive Quotes About Life Lessons

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” ― Isaac Asimov

 

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Steve Jobs

“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.”― Elisabeth Kübler-Ros

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. – Mohandas Gandhi

 

The answer’s simple: Live right, speak the truth, despise exploitation, refuse bribes, reject violence, avoid evil amusements. This is how you raise your standard of living! A safe and stable way to live. A nourishing, satisfying way to live.- Isaiah 33:15-16 The Message (MSG)

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”― Bob Marley

 

“The last of the human freedoms: to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. ― Victor Frankl

There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry, and distraction which life causes as it rushes on.-  Frederick William Faber

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.”
 -Jean-Henri Fabre

 

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