Uplifting Quotes

Are you going through hardship? Do you need a boost of confidence to keep going? As long as we live, there are challenges and trials that we have to face to achieve our dream. If you are having a hard time, maybe one or two of the uplifting quotes can encourage you to fight and live another day.

Uplifting Quotes About Life

“Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God”.
-Mary Manin Morrissey

“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.”
– Donald Trump

“Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light somewhere nearby. “
– Ruth E. Renkee

“Be the person you want to have and you will find yourself on a path to ultimate happiness.”
– Jordan Canon

“If your problem has a solution then why worry about it? If your problem doesn’t have a solution then why worry about it?”
– Chinese Proverb

“Never tell your problems to anyone…20% don’t care and the other 80% are glad you have them.” –Lou Holtz

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact”.
– William James

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
-Mark Twain

“The follies which a person regrets most in his life are those he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity”.
-Helen Rowland

“Life must be lived as play.”
– Plato

“ In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”
– Tony Robbins

“There is never an apology needed in a world where we do not judge others.”
– Jordan Canon

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
– Henry David Thoreau

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
– Pamela Vaull Starr

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer

“Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a “must” and “want.”
– Jim Rohn

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
– James Dean

“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
-Socrates

“Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness. I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.”
– Aaron Copland

“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.”
– Lorraine Anderson

“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain

“Keep your face to the Sunshine and you will not see the Shadows. “
– Helen Keller

“You create your own universe as you go along.”
– Winston Churchill

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
– Jack London
“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
– Frank Tibolt

“Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.”
-Eric A. Burns

“Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. “
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.”
– Adlin Sinclair

Uplifting Quotes for Hard Times

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein

“Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.”
– Mother Teresa

“The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
– Brian Littrell

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
– Benjamin Spock

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
– Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
– Helen Keller

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
– Joseph Campbell

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
– Joseph Campbell

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
– Epictetus

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

Setbacks are temporary as long as you don’t give up.
– Kevin Ngo

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. “
– Mark Twain

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
– Marie Curie

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
– Confucius

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of the people who said you couldn’t… will be priceless. “
– Kevin Ngo

“If they can make penicilin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”
– Muhammad Ali

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
– Stephen King

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde

“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”
– Tony Robbins

Uplifting Bible Quotes

“I cried aloud to the LORD, and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah”
– David, King of Israel & Judah

“Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.”
– Solomon, King of Israel; Proverbs 12:25

“Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.”
– James, the brother of Jesus Christ; James 1:12

“… fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
– Almighty God; Isaiah 41:10

“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world— our faith.”
– John, son of Zebedee; 1 John 5:3-4

“The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.”
– Paul of Tarsus; Romans 8:16-17

“Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”
– Simon Peter; 1 Peter 5:6-8