Sometimes you need something to pick you up and make you feel better.
No matter the mood I'm in, quotes make me feel better. They inspire me, motivate me, uplift me – they raise my energy so that it's easier for me to manifest what I want.
I'd love it if you could share quotes that make you feel better in the comments below – because I'd like this page to become a fantastic resource we can all come back to when we want to feel better.
So what quotes do you have taped on your computer or wall at home? What quotes have you highlighted in your favorite book?
Here are quotes that I've collected:
1. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
2. “What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” – Crowfoot
3. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
4. “Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment. Know the sweet joy of the way.” – The Dhammapada
5. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” – Wayne Gretzky
6. “It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
7. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
8. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin
9. “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” – Napoleon Hill
10. “I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.” – Jimmy Dean
11. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
12. “A moment comes when the true self reveals itself. That moment comes when you are willing to be unconditionally present in the imperfection of this moment. A simple change of attitude; instead of chasing after perfection, you allow a total and profound surrendering to the imperfection of the moment.” – Tyohar
13. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb
14. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
15. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
16. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
17. “I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.” – Louise Hay
18. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine
19. “Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
20. “Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial or a sorrow or a duty, believe me that angel's hand is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim, that is all.” – Fra Giovanni
21. “It's always been my philosophy: Turn the page. If something falls through, turn the page. It's over with, get used to it, get on with it. Very simple. It's always worked for me.” – Merv Griffin
22. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
23. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland
24. “We cannot change life! We can only change the way we live life. Any moment is the best moment, and any place is the best place.” – Tishan
25. “All I ask is that you do your best, and forget the rest.” – Tony Horton
26. “By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action, you receive it.” – Wallace D. Wattles
27. “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” – Dr. Seuss
29. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
30. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
31. “Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.” – Robert Collier
32. “Buy the ticket, take the ride.” – Hunter S. Thompson
33. “What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.” – Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
34. “I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.” – Macon Leary
35. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi
36. “As you begin to live according to your own guidance and your own daring, everything changes completely.” – Barbara Marciniak
37. “Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.” – Erica Jong
38. “Nothing is always absolutely so.” – Theodore Sturgeon
39. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
40. “The relationship that counts most in my life is the one I have with myself. I have a great, great, great relationship with myself, and it gets better and better as I get older. The other day, I was talking to Barry in the car and I said, ‘I'm so glad I'm me!'” – Diane von Furstenberg
41. “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
42. “A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.” – Harold Ramis
43. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” – Dr. Seuss
44. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” – Abraham Lincoln
45. “Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde
46. “Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you dream it first.” – George Lucas
47. “Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” – George S. Patton
48. “Every time we open our mouths to speak or sing we are affecting ourselves and the people hearing us. By opening up your voice to its greatest possibilities, you will experience positive changes both physically and emotionally. Change the way you sound and enjoy the success it will bring to you.”
– Roger Love
49. “Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want.” – Robert G. Allen
50. “The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.” — Norman Vincent Peale
51. “If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.” – Denis Waitley
52. “Everything is always impossible before it works. That's what entrepreneurs are all about… Doing things that people have told them is impossible.” – R. Hunt Greene
53. “If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.” – Joe Vitale
54. “It's not the hours you put in, but what you put into the hours, that counts.” – Jim Rohn
55. “Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.” – William Makepease Thackeray
56. “Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert
57. “Intention is not something you do, but rather a force that exists in the universe as an invisible field of energy – a power that can carry us.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer
58. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill
59. “Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.” – Doug Larson
60. “When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.” – Paulo Coelho
61. “Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.” – Michael Josephson
62. “Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.” – Anne Byrhhe
63. “What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” – Wayne Dyer
64. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
65. “Life begins when you do.” – Hugh Downs
66. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
67. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
68. “If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.” – Gail Sheehy
69. “The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.” – Wallace Wattles
70. “To win, you've got to stay in the game.” – Claude M. Bristol
Love the quotes! Quotes I like too are:
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” — Albert Einstein
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.” — Buddha
“What you resist persists.” — Carl Jung
“You create your own universe as you go along.” — Winston Churchill
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” — James Allen
“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks for sharing, Jay! The quotes are great!
Here is a great one for you Elizabeth. This one is money when you recognize how profound the statement really is.
Circumstances don’t MATTER only state of being MATTERS.
-Bashar
When you recognize how accurate it is you can use it to easily break free from the current experience and recognize nothing creates your physical experience other than your state of being and you can change anything instantaneously.
That’s a great one! Thanks for sharing!