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
- “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” — Stephen Richards
- “Stars can’t shine without darkness.”
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
- “Every challenge is a door to a world you’ve never seen before.”
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “Rise up. Start fresh. See the bright opportunity in each new day.”
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
- “Mountains are climbed one step at a time.”
- “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
- “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” — Maori Proverb
- “Positivity always wins…Always.” — Gary Vaynerchuk
- “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”
- “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Be the energy you want to attract.”
- “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.” — William Butler Yeats
- “Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.” — Alice Walker
- “Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.” — Roy T. Bennett
- “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” — Suzy Kassem
- “Your limitation—it’s only your imagination.”
- “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
- “Push today for what you want tomorrow to bring.”
- “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar
- “Light tomorrow with today’s courage.”
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” — Buddha
- “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.” — Christine Caine
- “Plant your garden with seeds of optimism and you will harvest happiness.”
- “Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” — Stephen King
- “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
- “Breathe in courage, exhale doubt.”
- “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “The only joy in the world is to begin.” — Cesare Pavese
- “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
- “Sprinkle joy like confetti.”
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
- “When you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine.”
- “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”
- “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Let your unique awesomeness and positive energy inspire confidence in others.”
- “Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.”
- “Small steps in the right direction can turn out to be the biggest step of your life.”
- “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot
- “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.”
- “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” — Lindsey Vonn
- “Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life.” — Snoopy
- “Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.”
- “Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso
- “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” — James Joyce
- “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
- “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston
- “You get what you work for, not what you wish for.”
- “Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle
- “Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.” — Brian Tracy
- “Life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
- “Each day provides its own gifts.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Create a life that feels good on the inside, not one that just looks good on the outside.”
- “The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.” — Dalai Lama
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
- “No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” — Demi Lovato
- “It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.” — Amelia Barr
- “The only journey is the one within.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Begin anywhere.” — John Cage
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
- “The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.” — David Sarnoff
- “You are enough just as you are.”
- “Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too.”
- “A positive mindset brings positive things.”
- “Every day may not be good… but there’s something good in every day.” — Alice Morse Earle
- “Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.” — Urijah Faber
- “Believe in the power of positive thinking.”
- “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” — Julie Andrews
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
- “Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.” — Bob Goff
- “Progress is progress no matter how small.”
- “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.”
- “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” — Richard Branson
- “You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.”
- “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” — Mandy Hale
- “Stay patient and trust your journey.”
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” — Vince Lombardi
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
- “Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” — Roy T. Bennett
- “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” — Carol Burnett
- “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'” — Audrey Hepburn
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
- “Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.” — Khalid
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
- “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” — Dalai Lama
- “Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
- “Keep going. Be all in.” — Bryan Hutchinson
- “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” — Maya Angelou
- “With the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything.” — Reese Witherspoon
- “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” — Booker T. Washington
- “What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” — Buddha
- “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill
- “Joy is not in things; it is in us.” — Richard Wagner
- “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale
- “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “The best revenge is massive success.” — Frank Sinatra
- “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein
- “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” — Joyce Meyer
- “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.” — Robert Tew
- “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” — Jim Ryun
- You don’t find the happy life. You make it.” — Camilla Eyring Kimball
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein
- “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.” — Brian Tracy
- “Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.”
- “Take the risk or lose the chance.”
- “What’s meant to be will always find a way.” — Trisha Yearwood
- “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” — Greg Anderson
- “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” — Carol Burnett
- “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll
- “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” — William James
- “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis
- “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
- “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn
- “Each day is a new opportunity to improve yourself. Take it and make the most of it.”
- “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
- “You are the artist of your own life. Don’t hand the paintbrush to anyone else.”
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair
- “Dream it. Believe it. Build it.”
- “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
- “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
- “Make each day your masterpiece.” — John Wooden
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” — Earl Nightingale
- “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” — Dolly Parton
- “The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
- “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Ziglar
- “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” — Roy T. Bennett
- “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” — Jim Rohn
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “A little progress each day adds up to big results.”
- “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” — Roy T. Bennett
- “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
- “When you replace ‘why is this happening to me’ with ‘what is this trying to teach me?’ everything shifts.”
- “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
- “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha
- “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” — Mother Teresa
- “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Every day brings new choices.” — Martha Beck
- “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” — Joseph Chilton Pearce
- “Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.” — John Maxwell
- “Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” — Napoleon Hill
- “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” — Albert Einstein
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe
- “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” — William Butler Yeats
- “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
- “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” — Lena Horne
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese Proverb
- “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar
- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker
- “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Christopher Columbus
- “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” — Jamie Paolinetti
- “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” — Simone de Beauvoir
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” — Brian Tracy
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
- “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” — Chris Grosser
- “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” — William James
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay
- “You are enough just as you are.” — Megan Markle
- “The best revenge is massive success.” — Frank Sinatra
- “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair
- “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
- “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” — Helen Keller
- “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time.” — Don Zimmer
- “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
- “The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.” — Tony Robbins
- “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” — C.S. Lewis
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine
- “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” — Roy T. Bennett
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
- “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “It’s not what we have in life but who we have in our life that matters.” — Margaret Laurence
- “To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; not only plan but also believe.” — Anatole France
- “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
- “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” — Newt Gingrich
- “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
