100 Positive Attitude Quotes

100 positive attitude quotes to keep you focused on the sunny side of life, wise words about being positive along with positive attitude expressions to uplift and inspire.

All of the quotes are from the attitude quotes & sayings pages on this site, but as there are so many entries on these pages (and always increasing),  I have taken what I believe to be the most inspirational to form this page. The quotes are listed in order of the authors surname and the unknown authors/sources are at the end.

This collection is also available to download and print as small quote cards from  my Spiritual Quotes.

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Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison   1672 – 1719
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Aesop

Aesop   620BC – 564BC
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou   1928 – 2014
This is a wonderful day…
I have never seen this one before.

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius   121 – 180
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive…
To breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher  1813 – 1887
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honour, to the persons who possess it.

William Blake

William Blake  1770 – 1850

He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sunrise.

Erma Bombeck

Erma Bombeck  1927 – 1996
If you can’t make it better..
You can laugh at it.

J. Allen Boone

J. Allen Boone  1882 – 1965
The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

Robert Brault

Robert Brault
There is exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

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Leon Brown
Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.

Buddha

Buddha  624BC – 543BC
When you realise how perfect everything is..
You will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

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Eileen Caddy

Eileen Caddy  1917 – 2006
Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.

Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry.. - Eileen Caddy - Spiritual Quotes To Live ByMark (1973)
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Albert Careb
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill  1874 – 1965
An optimist sees and opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.


Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

John Constable

John Constable  1776 – 1837
I never saw an ugly thing in my life, for let the form of an object be what it may – light, shade and perspective will always make it beautiful.

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Ram Dass

Ram Dass  1931
When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

Walt Disney

Walt Disney  1901 – 1966
Around here we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Wayne Dyer

Wayne Dyer   1940 – 2015
I trust that the Universe will provide experiences that match my desires and they will all work out for my Highest good.


No storm lasts forever.


See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

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Pliny The Elder

Pliny The Elder  23 – 79
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson  1803 – 1882
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart, that every day is the best day in the year.

Epictetus

Epictetus  55 – 135
People get disturbed not so much by events, but by the view which they take of them.

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin  1706 – 1790
I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi  1869 – 1948
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.

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh  1853 – 1890
If you hear a voice with you say “You cannot paint,” then by all means paint..  And that voice will be silenced.

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Walter C. Hagen  1892 – 1969
You’re only here for a short visit.
Don’t hurry, don’t worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way - Walter C. Hagen - Spiritual Quotes To Live By
Edward Everett Hale

Edward Everett Hale 1822 – 1909
I am only one.. But I am one.
I can’t do everything.. But I can do something.
And what I can do.. That I ought to do.
And what I ought to do.. By the grace of God I will do.

Mandy Hale

Mandy Hale
Forgive people who do you wrong..
They unknowingly make you strong.

Forgive people who do you wrong. They unknowingly make you strong - Mandy Hale - Spiritual Quotes To Live By
Vernon Howard

Vernon Howard  1918 – 1992
Change is never a loss..
It is change only.

Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard  1856 – 1915
Character is the result of two things..
Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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Susan Jeffers

Susan Jeffers  1938 – 2012
Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson  1743 – 1826
Nothing can stop a man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal.

Carl Jung

Carl Jung  1875 – 1961
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding about ourselves.

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Helen Keller

Helen Keller  1880 – 1968
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman  1967
I’m not sure what the future holds, but I do know that I’m going to be positive.

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Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama  1935
A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.

A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world - Dalai Lama - Spiritual Quotes To Live By
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Frederick Langbridge
Two men look out through the same prison bars..
One sees mud and one sees stars.

John Lennon

John Lennon  1940 – 1980
Everything will be okay in the end.
If it’s not okay..
It’s not the end.

C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis  1898 – 1963
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln  1809 – 1865
Whatever you are..  Be a good one.

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne  1533 – 1592
Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

Robert Muller

Robert Muller  1923 – 2010
Always radiate positive currents of Light, Goodness, Love, Kindness, Hope and Determination.


Switch on and keep on in yourself the cheerful buttons..
Those marked Joy, Laughter, Happiness, Love, Passion for Life, Gratitude for Life.

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Native American
Keep the warmth of the sun in your heart.


Looking behind.. I am filled with gratitude.
Looking forward.. I am filled with vision.
Looking upwards.. I am filled with strength.
Looking within.. I discover peace.

Keep the warmth of the sun in your heart - Native American - Spiritual Quotes To Live By
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Marie Osmond

Marie Osmond  1959
If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Ovid

Ovid  43BC – 17AD
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

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Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale  1898 – 1993
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.


The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results - Norman Vincent Peale - Spiritual Quotes To Live ByLucy (2012)
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Proverb
Every cloud has a silver lining.

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Osho Rajneesh

Osho Rajneesh  1931 – 1990
If you clean the floor with love, you have given the world an invisible painting.

Helen Steiner Rice

Helen Steiner Rice  1900 – 1981
There is always the hope of tomorrow to brighten the clouds of today,
there is always a corner for turning no matter how weary the way.

Cheryl Richardson

Cheryl Richardson
Breathe..
Everything is happening exactly as is should be.

Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti  1830 – 1894
Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine de Saint-Exupery  1900 – 1944
I know but one freedom and that is freedom of the mind.

Rita Schiano

Rita Schiano
Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction.
Break the habit, talk about your joys.

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer  1875 – 1965
Eventually all things fall into place, until then..
Laugh at the confusion, live for the moments
and know everything happens for a reason.

Dr Seuss

Dr Seuss  1904 – 1991
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Betty Shine

Betty Shine  1919 – 2002
Positive thought expands the halo of mind energy.

Positive thought expands the halo of mind energy - Betty Shine - Spiritual Quotes To Live By
Socrates

Socrates  470BC – 399BC
He is richest who is content with the least,
for contentment is the wealth of nature.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore  1861 – 1941
Clouds come into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.

Anna Taylor

Anna Taylor
Some people do not recognize gold, however it is packaged.
Be gold anyway. Be you anyway.

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa  1910 – 1997
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.


Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless - Mother Teresa - Spiritual Quotes To Live By
Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau  1817 – 1862
It’s not what you look at that matters..
It’s what you see.

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Voltaire

Voltaire  1694 – 1778
Wherever my travels may lead..
Paradise is where I am.

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William Arthur Ward

William Arthur Ward  1921 – 1994
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.


Optimists.. enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.


We can.. Throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them or build with them.

John Wesley

John Wesley  1703 – 1791

Do all the good you can.
In all the ways you can.
In all the places you can.
At all the times you can.
To all the people you can.
As long as ever you can.

Anthony Douglas Williams

Anthony Douglas Williams
If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.

Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson  1952
Try to see the good in others. When you’re tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey  1954
Doing the best at this moment, puts you in the best place for the next moment.


Every day brings a chance for you to..
Draw in a breath, kick off your shoes and dance.

Emma (1987)
Joseph B. Wirthlin

Joseph B. Wirthlin  1917 – 2008
Come what may..
And love it.

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Inspirational Words Of Wisdom:
Unknown Author


Always believe that something wonderful is going to happen.

Around the corner there may wait, a new road, or a secret gate.

Don’t worry, just breathe…
It it’s meant to be, it will find a way.

Every end is a new beginning.

Every end is a new beginning. - Spiritual Quotes To Live By

Every positive thought propels you in the right direction.

Everything happens for a reason.
Live it. Love it. Learn from it.
Make your smile change the world,
but don’t let the world change your smile.

Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.

I am thankful for all those difficult people in my life.
They have shown me who I do not want to be.

If someone dumps on you… Use it as compost.

If someone keeps laughing at me, I don’t need to fret…
At least I’m giving happiness.

It might take a year, it might take a day,
but what’s meant to be, will always find a way.

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

No matter how bad people may seem, they possess at least one virtue.
Be like the humming bird and pick out the sweetness in everyone’s character.

Some people complain because God put thorns on roses, while other praise Him for putting roses among thorns.

The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

The positive thinker…
sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.

The positive thinker… sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible - Spiritual Quotes To Live By

There is always a way.

Treat each mistake as a gift.
I have learned something, now move forward.

Two stone cutter were asked what they were doing.
The first said. “I’m cutting this damned stone into bricks.”
The second replied, “I’m on a team that’s building a cathedral.”

When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just thing of the view from the top.

When it rains, look for rainbows.
When it’s dark, look for stars.

You cannot hurt your eyesight by looking on the bright side.

You can’t live a positive life with a negative mind.

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