The ability of positive thinking can change your whole mindset.

It can even change your future; literally. There have been studies proven to show that optimism can reduce the risk of diseases and even premature death.

Positive thinking creates much more than just an outer appearance, it actually builds lifelong skills that you can utilize for the rest of your life.

That’s why I came up with these 75 quotes. Check them out!

Inspirational Positive Thinking Quotes

1. “Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.” – Tena Desae

2. “Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better.” – Stefon Diggs

3. “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” – Shiv Khera

4. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon B. Johnson

5. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

6. “Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.” – Leah LaBelle

7. “A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.” – Joyce Brothers

8. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller

9. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

10. “It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” – Oprah Winfrey

11. “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” – Joseph Campbell

12. “Press on – nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

13. “I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers – if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.” – Marla Gibbs

14. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” – Victor Kiam

15. “When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.” – Stephen Covey

16. “Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.” – Jack Canfield

17. “Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” – Khalil Gibran

18. “Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day.” – George Allen Sr.

19. “In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama

20. “No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.” – Demi Lovato

21. “Focus on creating and producing a future, not what happened yesterday.” – Grant Cardone

22. “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless

23. “The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.” – Bennett Cerf

24. “Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.” – Allen Klein

25. “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

26. “We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them.” – Brandon Jenner

27.. “When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.” – Paulo Coelho

28. “I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.” – Heidi Klum

29. “You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” – Ralph Marston

30. “Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.” – Jenn Proske”

31. “Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” – Walt Disney

32. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson

33. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino

34. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

35. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.” – E. Joseph Cossman

37. “Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.” – Henri Nouwen

38. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

39. “Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.” – Donald Johanson

40. “Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.” – Hans Selye

41. “Passion is an unmatched fuel. Add being happy to that and you have a wonderful formula for good health.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

42. “Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.” – Maya Watson

43. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

44. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” ― Roy T. Bennett

45. “Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.” – Harvey Mackay

46. “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” – Robin Sharma

47. “I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.” – Yani Tseng

48. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

49. “Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” – Benjamin Franklin

50. “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” – Les Brown

51. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” – Benjamin Disraeli

52. “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so let us all be thankful.” – Buddha

53. “The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle

54. “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

55. “The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.” – Ramakrishna

56. “I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.” – Alonzo Mourning

57. “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

58. “If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.” – Roopleen

59. “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” – Dr. Wayne W Dyer

60. “In the hopes of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.” – Albert Schweizer

61. “I’m a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, ‘Enjoy life. Celebrate life.” – Luke Bryan

62. “Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.” – Jesus

63. “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.” – Wade Boggs

64. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

65. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.” – Rumi

66. “All you can change is yourself, but sometimes that changes everything!” – Gary W Goldstein

67. “Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Francesca Reigler

68. “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” – Robert H Schuller

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

70. “You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events” – Joel Osteen

71. “I work so hard to make sure I’m successful. If you’re positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you’re doing, it’s going to happen, and it’s going to happen big time.” – Shawn Mendes

72. “Somewhere, someone else is happy with less than you have.” – Anonymous

73. “Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but has not solved one yet.” – Maya Angelou

74. “I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened” – Mark Twain

75. “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

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