100+ Stay Positive Quotes to Start Your Day With Optimism

Published Sept. 1, 2022

With so many things happening in the world these days, staying positive can sometimes be a chore. That’s why we listed down some of the most famous stay positive quotes to help you start your day right.

But how does reading some quotes help you foster optimism?

I remember a story about a king who couldn’t sleep thinking about his problems. He invited wise men from far and wide but they just couldn’t give him a solution to his dilemma. Then one day, a wise man came and told him one thing that changed his perspective. He told the king that “this too shall pass”. In that simple phrase, the king found the answer and he was finally able to sleep.

You see, life is a matter of perspective. You can choose to wallow in misery or look at the brighter side. A cup filled with water will always be half-full or half-empty depending on your perspective. This is what the king realized when he heard those words. He can choose to worry about his problems or look for the silver lining.

We may not all be kings who have wise men at our beck and call but we can certainly relate to his predicament. There are times in our lives when it feels like all the forces in the universe conspire to give us misery. It is in these times that we feel like giving up is our only option.

But as the wise man said, this too shall pass. Whatever is weighing you down right now, that too will pass. Each of us has our own troubles to deal with. But what sets happy people apart is their perspective. They choose to stay positive despite everything they’re going through. They choose to smile and hope. And that made all the difference.

So if life is bogging you down right now, starting your day with these stay positive quotes will make it a little bit better.

Positivity Quotes for Work

1. Don’t complain but compliment. Don’t compete but empower. – Debasish Mridha
2. Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. – Mary Lou Retton
3. If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles. – Widad Akrawi
4. An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of superior personality. – Brian Tracy
5. No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. – Robin Williams
6. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. – Tony Robbins
7. Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams. – Brad Sugars
8. 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 them closer to the fulfilment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them. – Jack Canfield
9. Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose. – G.K. Nelson
10. Even if I don’t reach all my goals, I’ve gone higher than I would have if I hadn’t set any. – Danielle Fotopoulis
11. I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mind set gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great. – Russell Wilson
12. The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. – Barack Obama
13. Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success. – Shiv Khera
14. Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. – Theodore Isaac Rubin
15. If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. – Pat Riley
16. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy
17. While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun. – Jean Chatzky
18. When you fail, that is when you get closer to success. – Stephen Richards
19. 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.” – Lea Labelle
20. Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. – Brian Tracy
21. When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple. – Paulo Coelho
22. Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. – Gertrude B. Elion
23. A positive atmosphere nurtures a positive attitude, which is required to take positive action. – Richard M. Devos
24. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. – Joyce Brothers

Positivity Quotes About Life

1. You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive! – Helen Steiner Rice
2. The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. – Winston Churchill
3. Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people. – Roy T. Benett
4. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. – Buckminster Fuller
5. You do not find the happy life. You make it. – Thomas S. Monson
6. We may not have hit the peak yet, but we are on the journey up. – Brian Nhira
7. Tough times never last but tough people do. – Robert Schuller
8. All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
9. The joy of life is becoming a person you are proud of. – Bill Orender
10. Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning. – S. C. Lourie
11. Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place. – Mark Alan Williams
12. If you can stay positive in a negative situation, you win. – Anonymous
13. Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar
14. Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people. – Tena Desae
15. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. – Jodi Picoul
16. 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
17. Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not your liking, change your liking. – Rick Steves
18. Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen. – Deep Roy
19. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the ‘what is next’, of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here. – Mark Twain
20. The moment where you doubt you can fly, you cease for ever being able to do it. – JM Barrie (Peter Pan)
21. Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment. – Mahatma Gandhi
22. The less you respond to negative people, the more positive your life will become. – Paulo Coelho
23. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius
24. Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to grow externally. – Hannah Bronfman
25. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West
26. Staying positive does not mean everything will turn out okay. Rather, it means you will be okay no matter how things turn out. – Unknown
27. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. – William James
28. The world doesn’t always give you what you want, but it often gives you what you need. – Naval Ravikant
29. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson
30. It doesn’t matter what cards you’re dealt. It’s what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it – Baker Mayfield
31. Life is tough, and things don’t always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives. – Suga
32. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford
33. The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey
34. If you see the world and yourself through a lens smudged by negativity, then you’ll find much misery. If you look outwards and inwards through lens brightened by positivity you’ll find much to be happy and appreciative about. – Henrik Edberg
35. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. – Marie Curie