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✨ Quotes to Brighten Your Day: Inspiration, Motivation & Positivity
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items Sometimes a few words are all it takes to change the mood of your day. ✨ Each of these quotes is one that resonated with me on a particular morning, so this collection has become a little snapshot of thoughts, moods and moments over time. Browse insp...
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✨ Motivation & Keep Going
💛 Happiness & Positivity
🌱 Life, Growth & Perspective
💪 Confidence & Being Yourself
❤️ Kindness, Love & Friendship
😂 Just for Fun
✨ Motivation & Keep Going
Goals, persistence, starting over, courage, success.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. (Bruce Lee) *
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. (Michael Jordan) *
I've failed over and over and over again in my life
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. (Jesse Owens) *
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. (Alex Haley) *
In every conceivable manner, the family is link...
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. (Muhammad Ali) *
He who is not courageous enough to take risks...
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. (Thomas A. Edison) *
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. (Rabindranath Tagore) *
You can't cross the sea merely by standing...
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. (Michael Jordan) *
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall...
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. (Leonard Bernstein)
To achieve great things, two things are needed...
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. (Mary Tyler Moore)
Take chances, make mistakes. That's ...
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. (H. G. Wells)
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. (H. G. Wells)
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. (Walter Elliot)
Perseverance is not a long race...
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. (William Arthur Ward)
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long...
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. (Harriet Tubman)
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad...
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. (Reba McEntire)
To succeed in life, you need three things...
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. (Helen Keller)
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet...
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream. (Elvis Presley)
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero...
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. (Richard Branson)
You don't learn to walk by following rules...
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. (Robert H. Goddard)
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday...
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. (Michael Phelps)
You can't put a limit on anything...
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. (Lucille Ball)
One of the things I learned the hard way was that...
💛 Happiness & Positivity
Joy, gratitude, optimism, enjoying life.
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world. (Lawrence G. Lovasik)
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. (Ingrid Bergman)
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Don't ever become a pessimist...
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. (J. B. Priestley)
I have always been delighted at the...
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. (Audrey Hepburn)
The most important thing is to enjoy your life
I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day. (Paul Henderson)
I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day
🌱 Life, Growth & Perspective
Change, lessons, wisdom, personal growth.
The less you talk, the more you're listened to. (Pauline Phillips)
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. (Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. (Ayn Rand)
Money is only a tool.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. (Maya Angelou)
If you don't like something, change it
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
People are like stained - glass windows.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. (Dorothy Thompson)
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. (Alfred Austin)
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt
It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health. (Joyce Meyer)
It's so important to realize that every time you get upset
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. (Richard M. DeVos)
Money cannot buy peace of mind
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. (Albert Einstein)
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking
There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. (Malcolm X)
There is no better teacher than adversity
There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet, and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind. (Jenny Nimmo)
There's nothing like the peace of the countryside
It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like. (Jack Schmitt)
It's like trying to describe what you feel
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. (Marcus Aurelius)
You have power over your mind
Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. (D. H. Lawrence)
Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. (Alexander Graham Bell)
When one door closes, another opens
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. (Eminem)
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. (Charlie Chaplin)
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. (Confucius)
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance
Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am. (David Bowie)
Age doesn't bother me.
What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up. (Yuval Noah Harari)
What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. (E. M. Forster)
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. (Auguste Rodin)
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All life is an experiment. The more experiments
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. (Bruce Lee)
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening. (Larry King)
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day
💪 Confidence & Being Yourself
Self-worth, individuality, believing in yourself.
Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do. (Vanessa Hudgens)
Being cool is being your own self
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! (Dr. Seuss)
Today you are you! That is truer than true!
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. (Julius Erving)
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important
❤️ Kindness, Love & Friendship
Relationships, compassion, caring for others.
My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them. (Milo Ventimiglia)
My sisters and mom raised me to respect women
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. (William Butler Yeats)
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. (Bill Watterson)
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (Mark Twain)
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience
I do love beauty. I love beautiful tilings. I grow orchids and collect butterflies. But when it comes to relationships, you have to find the person inside. (Morten Harket)
I do love beauty. I love beautiful tilings.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. (Dalai Lama)
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. (Nelson Mandela)
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. (Oprah Winfrey)
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo
😂 Just for Fun
Funny, cheeky, sarcastic or wonderfully random ones.
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. (Martin Mull)
Having children is like having a bowling alley
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. (Mitch Hedberg)
My fake plants died because I did not pretend
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. (Jules Renard)
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting
I don't want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, 'Wow, you've done a great job.' (Abby Lee Miller)
I don't want flowers or candy or anything like that
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? (Steven Wright)
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child. (Dave Morris)
Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of...
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver. (Jonathan Sacks)
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. (William Feather)
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. (Paul R. Ehrlich)
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it. (Alan Alda)
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. (Mark Twain)
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. (Evan Esar)
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices