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Positive Quotes
 Updated March 13, 2025, by Catherine Pulsifer
 
 
A collection of positive quotes to inspire and uplift you each day. Let these words be a source of encouragement, helping you embrace each moment with optimism and hope.
Starting your day with a positive thought can set the tone for everything that follows. When you choose to focus on the good, you’ll find strength in challenges and joy in simple moments. No matter what life brings, a mindset filled with hope and gratitude can turn obstacles into opportunities.
Positivity is not just about brightening your own path—it has a ripple effect. A kind word, a hopeful attitude, or a smile can make a bigger difference in someone’s life than you may ever know. So, keep your thoughts uplifting and your heart open, for your light may be just what someone else needs.
 
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No matter how small, every act of kindness and every word of encouragement has the power to brighten someone’s day—including your own.
  
 Positive Poems
 
 
 
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I'd like to sow the barren spots with all the flowers of earth, to leave a path where those who come should find but gentle mirth
  
Edgar A. Guest, The Gentle Gardener
 Garden Poems
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Friendship pure, unselfish friendship, all through life's allotted span, nurtures, strengthens, widens, lengthens man's affinity with man.
  
Unknown, Friendship
 Friendship Poems
     
    
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Admiring everything that's beautiful and loving all that's true,
 I do believe in every thought that turns this world to greatness, new.
  
Alfred Bem, My Creed
 Christian Poems
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When you get to know a fellow and you understand his ways, then his faults won’t really matter, for you’ll find a lot to praise. 
  
Edgar A. Guest, When You Know A Fellow
 Inspirational Poems
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Think about every good thing in your life right now. Free yourself of worrying. Let go of the anxiety, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.
  
Germany Kent
 Poems Of Encouragement
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Birthdays can be a positive time; a time to reflect on your past, prepare for your future, and celebrate your resilience.
  
 Author Unknown
 Birthday Poems
	 
		
- Dare to dream. Dare to stand out. Dare to go against the grain. Dare to challenge your perceived limitations.
  
 Claire Louise Hay,   Having It All: A Guide to Creating a Life Beyond Your Wildest Dreams  
 Poems About Dreams
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 Like the seasons of the year, each month holds its own positive embrace, offering unique blessings and opportunities.
  
Catherine Pulsifer
 Month Poems
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 Choose to find the positive way, good morning, have an amazing day!
  
Catherine Pulsifer, What A Great Day
 Good Morning Poems
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A Happy New Year to you, life has bright days for thee in store
  
Eloise A. Skimings, Happy New Year To You
 New Year Poems
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 Your positive energy brings us all such cheer, you always find that joy and make it appear.
  
C. Pulsifer, Without You
 Love Poems For Her
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Something remains for us to do or dare - even the oldest tree some fruit may bear
  
Unknown, Age Is Opportunity
 Poems On Aging
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 Giving fills our heart and soul with treasure - know that giving is the lofty measure.
  
Catherine Pulsifer, A Lofty Measure
 Giving Poems
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 Helping others can have such a positive impact in someones life, more than you may imagine. 
    
 Catherine Pulsifer, Receiving Help 
 Poems About Helping Others
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The best part about retirement is that it allows you to stop doing what someone tells you to do. Instead, you can start doing what you want to do.
  
Ernie Zelinski,   How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
 Retirement Poems
	 
	
- We have to consciously work on making our lives more positive and joyful. 
  
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein
 Enjoy Life Quotes
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I trace the rainbow through the rain,  and feel the promise is not vain 
  
Geroge Matheson, Trace The Rainbow Through The Rain
 Rainbow Poems
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Your smiling face brightens our day - you influence us to look at life in a positive way.
  
Catherine Pulsifer, Many Blessings
 Thank You Poems For Volunteers
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When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful.
  
 Lissa Rankin
 Gratitude Poems
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Read positive books; see positive things and surround yourself with positive thinkers; life will be full with positivity.
  
 Amit Ray, Nonviolence
 Poems About Books
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Our mental health is just as important as our physical, it's true - to stay positive and healthy, know what it is you must do.
  
Catherine Pulsifer, Your Mental Health
 Poems About Health
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Overthinking can escalate stress levels. Challenge negative thoughts, practice mindfulness, and redirect your focus to positive and productive activities.
   
Catherine Pulsifer
 Managing Stress
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Our very first thoughts of spring are ones of life, a season of rebirth and renewal, free from strife. Everything seems to come alive in the spring, from the tiny buds to the birds on the wing.
  
Catherine Pulsifer, Our First Thoughts
 Spring Poems
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And each good deed, each wrong withstood, lives in its influence for the good, throughout all coming time.
  
Unknown, Be True
 Justice Quotes
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I’m convinced that the best and maybe the only way to raise positive kids is to start by becoming a positive parent.
  
Zig Ziglar
 Parent Quotes
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 Clouds may hide the radiant skies, yet the sunshine never dies! 
  
Emily Huntington Miller, Sometimes
 Inspirational Quotes by Women
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Count your blessings. Focus on what you’ve got. Spread the positive vibes.
  
 Jyoti Patel
 Quotes About Blessings
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"Surround yourself with positivity,
In what you do each day.
And soon you see the strength you have,
To keep negativity away. 
  
Julie Hebert, Do Not Let Others Bring You Down
 Poems About Life
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By seeing the good in everything, you will find a positive year it will bring.
  
Catherine Pulsifer, A New Year Begins
 Famous New Year Poems
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Those who do not learn a lesson from history, for those the history repeats itself until it learns.
   
Shiva Negi
 Poems On Life Lessons
	
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So when trouble comes your way do not accept defeat and ruin your day
Move forward with a focused view - stay positive in all you do.
  
Byron Pulsifer, Trouble But Not Defeat
 Poems About Trouble
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 Look at life in a positive way with intent - clinging to every moment, missing no event.
  
Catherine Pulsifer, Today Choose
 Just For Today Poems
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And whether hopes rise high or whether fall, I do my best and slowly plod each day.
  
David V. Bush, Hope Blossoms Eternally
 Poems About Hope
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If our steps be upright, straight, and true... the bright smile of God come bursting through.
  
Will Carleton, Dark and Weary
 Poems about Honesty
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Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
	  
 Brian Tracy
 Quotes about Giving
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The greatest book ever written on what constitutes positive motivation, attitudes and behaviors is the Bible.
  
Byron R. Pulsifer
 Quotes About The Bible
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope.
  
Richard M. DeVos
 Optimistic Quotes
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Your purpose in life is to use your unique talents and abilities to make a positive impact in the world.
  
 Jack Canfield
 Quotes About Purpose
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When you keep your thoughts positive and focused on the possibilities, you are better able to find all the blessings that God wants you to have. 
  
Chris Johnston
 Quotes About God's Blessings
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Each day may bring days bright or gray, but keep moving forward each day. Like a garden a harvest, you will reap when you see your goal complete.
  
Catherine Pulsifer, Like A Garden
 Poems About Goals
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Does your heart call you to heal the dysfunction in your own family, which might positively impact generations?
  
Dr. Rachel Talton, Flourish: Have it All Without Losing Yourself
 Short Family Quotes
	
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Doubtless all of you are trying, different ladders to climb,
But be sure you only take one step at a time.
  
Lillian E. Curtis, One Step At A Time
 Famous Poems
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It is better to let go then live your life in a low as hard as it may be it is better to be free
  
 Catherine Pulsifer, Good To End
 Goodbye Poems For Lovers
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Once you start practicing being grateful and thankful for things, people, and events, you may notice that you start to attract more positive things, people, and events in your life.
  
Stephanie Conkle
 Thanksgiving Poems
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I refuse to see life through dreary eyes; the power of positivity I cannot deny.
  
Catherine Pulsifer, No Dreary Eyes
 Life Is Good Poems
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Thankfulness is about the condition of our heart because everything that is done from the heart is sincere.
  
Daniella Whyte, 365 Days of Thanking God
 Happy Thanksgiving Quotes
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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. 
   
Margaret Fuller Ossoli
 Home Quotes
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To all the heroes who have been tried and told and sung, let us add the sturdy boy who can hold his tongue.
  
Sydney Dayre, A Good Thing To Do
 Good Quotes
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... though today comes rain. Sunshine will return again.
  
Mary C. Plummer, The Bablbling Brook
 Quotes About Nature
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Even if your kindness isn’t returned at first, your gracious response could still impact the other person.
  
Charles Stanley
 Kindness Quotes
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And in all trials or troubles, bethink you, te watchword of life must be, Never give up!
  
Martin Farquhar Tupper, Never Give Up!
 Never Give Up Quotes
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Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus Christ is still the same.
  
Frances Ridley Havergal, This Same Jesus
 Quotes About Jesus
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We all need a bit of stress, life gives us these little tests. Stay positive and you can overcome
  
Catherine Pulsifer, Count Your Blessings
 Poems About Stress
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Smiling more and worrying less is a way of life to address - focus on the positive things
  
Catherine Pulsifer, Worry Less
 Smile Quotes
	
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You see words do matter, not only what we read but what we say. Are our words positive or negative. 
  
Catherine Pulsifer
 Short Inspirational Quotes
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You are richer today than you were yesterday if...you have looked for the best in others,
and have given others the best in you.
  
Unknown, You Are Richer Today
 Wealth Quotes
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Life is too short to not forgive, keep your thoughts positive.
  
Catherine Pulsifer, So True
 Life Is Too Short Quotes
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A pumpkin is a symbol of growth, reminding us that even small seeds can flourish into something extraordinary.
  
Author Unknown
 Pumpkin Quotes
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I have always believed that telling children what to do is not as good
 as showing them what to do. Showing them is more powerful.
  
Hyacinth Mottley, Words of Wisdom - Words of Faith  
 
 Children Quotes
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 Little acts of kindness, richest gems of earth, though they seem but trifles,priceless is their worth.
  
Unknown, Little Acts Of Kindness
 Kindness Poems
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Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that! 
  
Tyra Banks
 Celebrate Quotes
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 Sometimes sit an' think about it, ponderin' on the ways of life...Then I come to this conclusion—take it now for what it's worth- It's the joy of laughter keeps us plodding on this stretch of earth.
  
 Edgar A Guest, Laughter
 
 Laugh Quotes
	
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To me, abundance is simple: it’s having enough, being fulfilled, and feeling as though my cup is running over.
  
Lisa Nichols,  Abundance Now
 Abundance Quotes
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Many wonderful occurrences can happen in one single day, but it's up to us as individuals to notice them on our way.
  
Catherine Pulsifer, Miracles Exist Today
 Poems About Miracles
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So point my life in a positive direction, do it right and learn from each correction.
  
Catherine Pulsifer, Future Unknown
 Poems About The Future
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Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
  
 Judy Garland
 Quotes About Being Yourself
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Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.
	  
 Author Unknown
 Poetry About Words
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 One of the keys to attaining any goal is to figure out which actions will lead to the accomplishment of that goal and then enshrining those actions in a regular habit
  
Mike Buffington,  Hacking Laziness 
 Goals Quotes
	
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A positive inner voice will come when you cultivate inner peace, kindness, patience and happiness.
  
Mary Reis, Positive Thinking
 Patience Quotes
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Oh, 'tis easy to talk, and for words to float out....but to talk, and to do, are two different things.
   
 Lillian E Curtis, One Thing To Talk And Another To Do
 Action Quotes
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Last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.
  
T.S. Eliot
 New Year New Beginnings Poems
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Although it is not entirely possible to keep from the negative things around you,
 you can still carry a positive attitude by focusing on the good and positive
 things in life.
  
Clement Getate,  Your Cross to Happiness  
 Attitude Quotes
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A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.
  
 Charles and Ann Morse
 Quotes on Grandparents
	
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... one excellent way to boost your self-appreciation is by thinking of all the ways you have positively impacted the lives of others.
  
Courtney E. Ackerman, My Pocket Gratitude
 Appreciation Quotes
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Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
	  
 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Every Day
 Thanksgiving Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Read a motivational quote - This will keep your mind focuses on your goal, 
and will keep you feeling positive to assist you in achieving it.
  
Diann B. Murr, Wake Up Successful
 Motivational Poems
	
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A positive attitude toward life may help ward off sicknesses. 
	  
	Sheldon Cohen 
 
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Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty
	  
Israelmore Ayivor
 Quotes on Honesty
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Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything 
better than negative thinking will. 
  
Zig Ziglar
 Graduation Poems
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The mind's bright chambers, life unlocks each summer with the hollyhocks.
  
Edgar A. Guest, Hollyhocks
 Hollyhocks Poem
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A new day brings a fresh beginning, a chance to make good, to see the world with new eyes, to speak with new voice and do something positive. 
  
Sihle B.V. Ntshingila
 Quotes About New Beginnings
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By validating your friends, you can form stronger relationships with them, and you can help them to feel better about who they are.
  
Nicole Raheja,  Redefining Positive
 Best Friend Quotes
	
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Acceptance means recognizing that there is a better way to work through or around any obstacle.
  
Rosy Lee Anderson
 Work Quotes
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Seek positive resolution with empathy's wing, and watch harmony's chords begin to sing.
  
Catherine Pulsifer, Arrows of Criticism
 Poems About Criticism
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Literacy is the cornerstone of progress, the foundation on which societies rise.
  
Author Unknown
 Quotes About Literacy

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