Uplifting Quotes

Without music, life would be a mistake.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

The best way to predict your future is to create it

We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Give light and people will find the way.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

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.

Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limit.... A passion for life is contagious and uplifting. Passion cuts both ways.... Those that make you feel on top of the world are equally able to turnit upside down.....

Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.

We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.

If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.

In those times we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have. In doing so, we will often find that our lives are already full to overflowing.

A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless membership that we pay nothing for but love.

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it.

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York