Life can be really tough sometimes. When things get hard, it helps to hear words that lift our spirits and remind us that we’re not alone.
That’s why we’ve put together a big list of 200 uplifting quotes. These quotes can give you a boost and maybe even a smile when you’re feeling down.
Quotes are powerful because they are like advice from friends or famous people who have been through their own struggles.
They can make our problems feel a bit smaller and our hopes a bit bigger. Each quote in this collection has been chosen to help you feel stronger and more hopeful, no matter what you’re facing.
Whether you need motivation to keep going, something to lift your mood, or just a reminder that things will get better, these quotes are here for you.
Remember, no matter how hard things get, there’s always a reason to hold on and keep fighting.
[Also Read: 100 Positive Words Of Encouragement For Women]
Uplifting Quotes For Tough Times
1. “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” — Stephen Richards
2. “Stars can’t shine without darkness.”
3. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
4. “Every challenge is a door to a world you’ve never seen before.”
5. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
6. “Rise up. Start fresh. See the bright opportunity in each new day.”
7. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
8. “Mountains are climbed one step at a time.”
9. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” — Albert Schweitzer
10. “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” — Maori Proverb
11. “Positivity always wins…Always.” — Gary Vaynerchuk
12. “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”
13. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
14. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
15. “Be the energy you want to attract.”
16. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.” — William Butler Yeats
17. “Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.” — Alice Walker
18. “Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.” — Roy T. Bennett
19. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” — Suzy Kassem
20. “Your limitation—it’s only your imagination.”
21. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
22. “Push today for what you want tomorrow to bring.”
23. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar
24. “Light tomorrow with today’s courage.”
25. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
26. “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” — Buddha
27. “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.” — Christine Caine
28. “Plant your garden with seeds of optimism and you will harvest happiness.”
29. “Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
30. “Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” — Stephen King
31. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
32. “Breathe in courage, exhale doubt.”
33. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
34. “The only joy in the world is to begin.” — Cesare Pavese
35. “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
36. “Sprinkle joy like confetti.”
37. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
38. “When you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine.”
39. “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”
40. “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
41. “Let your unique awesomeness and positive energy inspire confidence in others.”
42. “Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.”
43. “Small steps in the right direction can turn out to be the biggest step of your life.”
44. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot
45. “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step.”
46. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
47. “Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” — Lindsey Vonn
48. “Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life.” — Snoopy
49. “Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.”
50. “Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso
51. “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” — James Joyce
52. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
53. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston
54. “You get what you work for, not what you wish for.”
55. “Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle
56. “Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.” — Brian Tracy
57. “Life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
58. “Each day provides its own gifts.” — Marcus Aurelius
59. “Create a life that feels good on the inside, not one that just looks good on the outside.”
60. “The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.” — Dalai Lama
61. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
62. “No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” — Demi Lovato
63. “It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.” — Amelia Barr
64. “The only journey is the one within.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
65. “Begin anywhere.” — John Cage
66. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
67. “The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.” — David Sarnoff
68. “You are enough just as you are.”
69. “Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too.”
70. “A positive mindset brings positive things.”
71. “Every day may not be good… but there’s something good in every day.” — Alice Morse Earle
72. “Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.” — Urijah Faber
73. “Believe in the power of positive thinking.”
74. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” — Julie Andrews
75. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
76. “Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.” — Bob Goff
77. “Progress is progress no matter how small.”
78. “Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe, and have faith that everything will work out for the best.”
79. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” — Richard Branson
80. “You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.”
81. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” — Mandy Hale
82. “Stay patient and trust your journey.”
83. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote
84. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” — Vince Lombardi
85. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
86. “Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” — Roy T. Bennett
87. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” — Carol Burnett
88. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'” — Audrey Hepburn
89. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
90. “Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.” — Khalid
91. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
92. “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” — Dalai Lama
93. “Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
94. “Keep going. Be all in.” — Bryan Hutchinson
95. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” — Maya Angelou
96. “With the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything.” — Reese Witherspoon
97. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” — Booker T. Washington
98. “What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” — Buddha
99. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill
100. “Joy is not in things; it is in us.” — Richard Wagner
101. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill
102. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale
103. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
104. “The best revenge is massive success.” — Frank Sinatra
105. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein
106. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” — Joyce Meyer
107. “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.” — Robert Tew
108. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” — Jim Ryun
109. “You don’t find the happy life. You make it.” — Camilla Eyring Kimball
110. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
111. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
112. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein
113. “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.” — Brian Tracy
114. “Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.”
115. “Take the risk or lose the chance.”
116. “What’s meant to be will always find a way.” — Trisha Yearwood
117. “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” — Greg Anderson
118. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” — Carol Burnett
119. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll
120. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” — William James
121. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis
122. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” — Nelson Mandela
123. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn
124. “Each day is a new opportunity to improve yourself. Take it and make the most of it.”
125. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
126. “You are the artist of your own life. Don’t hand the paintbrush to anyone else.”
127. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair
128. “Dream it. Believe it. Build it.”
129. “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.” — Marcus Aurelius
130. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
131. “Make each day your masterpiece.” — John Wooden
132. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
133. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” — Earl Nightingale
134. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” — Dolly Parton
135. “The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi
136. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
137. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Ziglar
138. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” — Roy T. Bennett
139. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” — Jim Rohn
140. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
141. “A little progress each day adds up to big results.”
142. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” — Roy T. Bennett
143. “Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.” — Mark Twain
144. “When you replace ‘why is this happening to me’ with ‘what is this trying to teach me?’ everything shifts.”
145. “If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs
146. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha
147. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” — Mother Teresa
148. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
149. “Every day brings new choices.” — Martha Beck
150. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” — Joseph Chilton Pearce
151. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.” — John Maxwell
152. “Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” — Napoleon Hill
153. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
154. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” — Albert Einstein
155. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
156. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe
157. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” — William Butler Yeats
158. “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
159. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” — Lena Horne
160. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese Proverb
161. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar
162. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker
163. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Christopher Columbus
164. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” — Jamie Paolinetti
165. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” — Simone de Beauvoir
166. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
167. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
168. “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” — Brian Tracy
169. “Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan
170. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
171. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein
172. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
173. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” — Chris Grosser
174. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” — William James
175. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
176. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
177. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay
178. “You are enough just as you are.” — Megan Markle
179. “The best revenge is massive success.” — Frank Sinatra
180. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
181. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
182. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair
183. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” — Albert Schweitzer
184. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” — Helen Keller
185. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time.” — Don Zimmer
186. “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. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan
187. “The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.” — Tony Robbins
188. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” — C.S. Lewis
189. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine
190. “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” — Roy T. Bennett
191. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
192. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius
193. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
194. “It’s not what we have in life but who we have in our life that matters.” — Margaret Laurence
195. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; not only plan but also believe.” — Anatole France
196. “Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” — Roy T. Bennett
197. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” — Newt Gingrich
198. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” — Theodore Roosevelt
199. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
