Quotes are optimistic. Uplifting quotes from great people

A person must strive for heights. Otherwise, what is heaven for? Robert Browning 12

A thing is like a car: by itself it will only move downhill. Commandment of American Managers 13

Clarify for yourself what you truly love, and not what you were taught to love, and follow it Someone from Habr 17

My word is my commitment. Motto of the London Stock Exchange 15

If there is, then be the first. V.P. Chkalov 13

Success is being on time. Marina Tsvetaeva 20 - optimistic statements

What you receive reflects what you give. In any business, to achieve success, you need a certain amount of madness. William Shakespeare 20

There is no need to live in anticipation. It's endless 30

The best way to use life is to create something that will outlive you. William James 13

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt 20

It's a pity that the journey comes to an end, but it is at the end that it makes sense. Ursula Pe Guin 14

Those who want to work look for means, those who don’t want to look for reasons. S. P. Korolev 13

I'm interested in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life in it. Charles F. Ketterling 14

A fire does not go out because another one is lit from it. Lucian 13

In a year, no one will remember what jeans you wore, but everyone will remember what kind of person you were. 34

No one knows as much as all of us together. Inscription on the town hall 12

Anyone who does not know where they are going will be very surprised when they end up in the wrong place. Mark Twain 10

Fate is not a matter of chance, but the result of choice; Fate is not expected, it is created. William Briand 14

Most big mistake committed by one who does nothing, fearing that he is able to do too little. Edmund Burke 18

You cannot see the most important thing with your eyes, only your heart is vigilant. Antoine de Saint Exupery 23

Improve yourself, but don't try to be the best. No one needs this 7

There is a hidden bell in every person, and if you touch it, the person will sound with all the best that he has. A. M. Gorky 14

Be moderate in your desires. Limit yourself within reasonable limits, fulfill your modest desires as soon as possible and be happy, and don’t chase more and more, because there is no end to this and a new iPad will definitely be released next week :) 9

He who looks for millions very rarely finds them, but he who does not look for them never finds them! O. Balzac 13

A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. Lao Tzu 16

The viewing angle depends on the space occupied. Miles' Law 14

Great things must be done, not thought about endlessly. Julius Caesar 16

Faith is the willingness to act for a goal whose successful achievement is not guaranteed. William James 11

A goal is a dream that must come true by a specific date. Someone 13

How many things were considered impossible until they were accomplished. Pliny the Elder 15


You have been sleeping for millions and millions of years. Why don't you wake up tomorrow morning?
/Kabir/

If you imagine yourself as fighting, you feel like retreat is impossible. But you are not a battle. You are the battlefield.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.
/Michel Montaigne/

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
/Bertrand Russell/

If Galileo had said in poetry that the Earth rotates, the Inquisition would have left him alone.
/Thomas Hardy/

All my “never”s fall away like rotten branches.

Being forty-seven years old, I can say that I learned everything that I was destined to learn before I was seven years old, and for the next forty years I realized it.
/Marina Tsvetaeva/

The poem begins like a lump in the throat.
/Robert Frost/


Simplify and then add lightness.
/Colin Chapman/

Morals, ethics, laws, customs, faith, doctrines - these are all nonsense. What really matters is that the amazing becomes the norm.
/Henry Miller/

There are things that cannot be expressed in any way. And yet they show themselves.
/Wittgenstein/

I never listen to anyone who criticizes me space travel, my rides or my gorillas. When this happens, I just pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
/Ray Bradbury/

Poets, as a rule, have a rather weak idea of ​​the most ordinary things, with the exception of writing poetry, falling in love and sex. That's why half of their poems are about writing poetry, falling in love and sex.
/Charles Baxter/

Even if you were stupid enough to show yourself, don't worry, they can't see you.
/Henri Michaud/

Cinema is life, and photography is death.
/Susan Sontag/

Life is undoubtedly much more like Ulysses than The Three Musketeers - but we are nonetheless inclined to read it as The Three Musketeers rather than Ulysses.
/Umberto Eco/

I don't like men. I like what eats them.
/Andre Gide/

Your faith in God is simply an escape from a monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
/Krishnamurti/

Giving a whore a beating is an easy and cheap way to feel powerful. If you feel insecure or ashamed of your own sexual desires, all you need to do is call a whore you know and now you are good and at the top of the social hierarchy.
/Leora Tanenbaum/

One of the biggest consequences of war is that people end up giving up on heroism.
/Kurt Vonnegut/


I am a fountain of blood. In the form of a girl.
/Björk Gvüdmundsdóttir/

Ellen. My wife: I feel like I understand her less than foreign writer, who died a hundred years ago. Is this an aberration or is it normal? Books say: she did it because... Life says: she did it because she did it. Books are where everything is explained to you; life - where nothing is explained to you. I'm not surprised that some people prefer books. Books give life meaning. The only problem is that the lives they give meaning to are other people's lives, never your own.
/Julian Barnes/

Be kind whenever possible. And this is always possible.
/Dalai Lama/

Your beliefs are more dangerous enemies to the truth than lies.
/Friedrich Nietzsche/

As we pass through ourselves, we meet robbers, spirits, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, rival brothers. But we always meet ourselves.
/Joyce/

I have bad character, that's why I can't stand people with bad character.
/Eugene Ionescu/

The same word sounds differently for different writers. One has his insides dragging behind his words. The other takes it out of his coat pocket.
/Charles Peguy/

I make decisions intuitively. But I should always know why I made this decision. I throw my spear into the darkness. This is intuition. But then I have to send people into the darkness to find the spear. This is intelligence.
/Ingmar Bergman/

People think they stop falling in love when they get old, when in reality they get old when they stop falling in love.
/Marquez/

The goal of art is not an immediate adrenaline rush, but rather the gradual, continuous construction of a state of wonder and calm.
/Glenn Gould/

The first sign of the beginning of understanding is the desire to die.
/Kafka/

I was once beautiful. Now I have become myself.
/Anne Sexton/

Religion for people who are afraid of hell. Spirituality for the people who have been there.
/David Bowie/

I do not envy people who have a complete picture of the world in their heads, for the simple reason that they are obviously mistaken.
/Salman Rushdie/

Shall I reveal to you the secret of the world? This secret is that we see him only from behind, with reverse side. We see everything from behind, and everything seems scary to us. This tree, for example, is just the wrong side of a tree, the cloud is just the wrong side of a cloud. How can you not understand that everything in the world hides its face from us? If we could get in from the front...
/Chesterton/

If I quote others, it is only to better express my own thoughts.
/Michel de Montaigne/


Keep time! Guard him any hour, any minute. Without supervision, it will slip away like a lizard. Illuminate every moment with an honest, worthy achievement! Give it weight, meaning, light.
/Mann Thomas/

We waste our childhood wanting to become adults, and when we grow up, we spend our whole lives trying not to grow old.
/Clive Lewis/

God loved birds and created trees. Man fell in love with birds and created cages.
/Jacques Deval/

Each of us is God, each of us knows everything. We just have to open our minds to listen to our own wisdom...
/Dan Brown/

Let childhood mature in children.
/J.-J. Rousseau/

He who is deprived of sincere friends is truly lonely.
/Francis Bacon/

Love is toothache in the heart of a person.
/Heinrich Heine/

No one realizes the beauty of travel until he comes home and rests his head on an old familiar pillow.
/Lin Yutang/

Naivety is a characteristic of both old people and children. And a person contains both a child and an old man at the same time.
/B. Brecht/

In space and time, God can find himself only in the depths of the human heart, but only in its very last depths.
/Grigory Solomonovich Pomerants/

Being an adult means being lonely.
/Jean Rostand/

If children grew up in accordance with our expectations, we would only produce geniuses.
/Johann Wolfgang Goethe/

The tragedy of old age is not that you are old, but that you are not young.
/Oscar Wilde/

Someone else's soul is darkness, but a cat's soul is even more so.
/A.P.Chekhov/

True personal freedom is impossible without economic security and independence. Hungry unemployed people are cadres for dictatorship.
/Franklin Delano Roosevelt/

Loneliness - beautiful thing; but you need someone to tell you that loneliness is a wonderful thing.
/Honoré de Balzac/

Brief, clear, intelligible and, most importantly, positive. Quotes from great people for every day will help you look at own life as if a little from the outside. An unusual angle of view, a somewhat unusual interpretation, may help you understand and evaluate the events happening to you a little differently. Maybe they will help you understand yourself. Or maybe not. In any case, they will cheer you up - after all, that’s why they are positive quotes for every day :)

Happiness is not having what you want, but desiring what you have.
Osho

Miracles are where people believe in them, and the more they believe, the more often they happen.
Denis Diderot

Act as if you are already happy and you will actually become happier.
Dale Carnegie

Wherever you can live, you can live well.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I've missed over 9,000 times in my career. I lost almost 300 matches. 26 times I was entrusted with making the decisive shot and I missed. I have failed very often in my life. That's why I succeeded.
Michael Jordan

Success is moving from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

If you're falling off a cliff into an abyss, why not try flying? What do you have to lose?
Max Fry, "The Chronicles of Echo"

Aim for the Moon... because even if you miss, you'll land on one of the stars
Les Brown

You are never given a desire without being given the strength to make it come true.
Richard Bach

When you really want something, the entire Universe will help make your wish come true.
Paulo Coelho

Well, we got an extra one positive charge? If it's not enough for you, let's continue. Positive quotes for every day will restore your self-confidence and give you answers to difficult questions. So here’s another portion of thoughts and sayings for inspiration and energy.

I think you should enjoy the race while you're on the horse.
Johnny Depp

If you don't make mistakes, it means you're not trying to do anything.
Coleman Hawkins

There are no disappointments in life - only lessons.
Jennifer Aniston

Everyone needs a chance to change for the better.
Jay Z

Without going too far, how do you know what you're capable of?
Thomas Stearns Eliot

If you hit the wrong note, continue playing without anyone noticing your mistake.
Joe Pass

You can't limit yourself. The more you dream, the more you will achieve.
Michael Phelps

Follow your heart. Be true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path, unless you get lost in the forest and find a path - then, of course, you should follow it.
Ellen DeGeneres

Keep your head high and swing your hips as you walk.
Christina Aguilera

I am grateful to fate for all my problems. As I overcame each one, I became stronger and more capable of solving the problems I had yet to face. Thanks to all these difficulties, I developed.
JC Penney

Remember that there is always more positive in life than negative. Sometimes all you need to do is take a fresh look at your life and realize that everything is in your hands. Make this your daily routine, and let these positive statements will serve as a kick to you (in in a good way this word).

When you find yourself in a dead end, question everything except your ability to get out of it.
Twyla Tharp

Every problem is a chance to prove yourself.
Duke Ellington

Let bad times come and go. I enjoy every minute of the fight.
Mary Madsen

Don't be nervous. Do your work calmly, joyfully and carefree.
Henry Miller

You and only you are able to write the story of your life that you are destined to tell. And the world needs your story because it needs your voice.
Kerry Washington

In order to get what you want from life, it is absolutely necessary to take the first step: decide what exactly you want.
Ben Stein

To avoid criticism, you need to do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

Life - great value. It is given only once. Don't waste it on bad relationship, bad marriage, bad job, bad people. Spend your life wisely doing what you want to do.
Eric Idle

There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs

You can't be a kid who stands on a water slide and thinks for a long time about what to do. You must go down the chute.
Tina Fey

A selection of positive quotes about love for inspiration and funny quotes about everything for a smile

Nothing motivates like the right slogans for the day. This fact is known to everyone: how you start the day is how you spend it! So start your day right.

We invite you to recharge yourself with vigor and spirit for the whole working day and watch 25 best statuses for this week!

1. Dreams must be either crazy or unrealistic... Otherwise, they are just plans for tomorrow!

2. Calmness is stronger than emotions. Silence is louder than a scream. Indifference is worse than war.


3. I probably will never grow up... I still believe in miracles, love and good people.


4. It’s not because of your beauty that I fell in love with you, and it’s not because of your old age that I’ll fall out of love.


5. Learn to let go. The native will always find its way back.


6. An inexplicable thing is the soul. Nobody knows where he is, but everyone knows how much it hurts.


7. Live in such a way that when people encounter you, they smile, and when communicating with you, they become a little happier.

8. Sometimes in some strange ways in life everything works out on its own.

9. Happiness is when your parents are healthy.

10. By humiliating others, you will not become higher!


11. Our biggest misconception is that we still have a lot of time...


12. Never regret what you did if you were happy at that moment.


13. May the Almighty forgive us when we are dissatisfied with what we have...


14. Don't try to sort things out with people who have disappointed you. Silently leave them alone with all their junk.


15. Everyone has their own problems - some have stale bread, and some have small diamonds. Appreciate what you have.

16. Sometimes the Almighty removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after him.

17. Do not be sad about anything in advance and do not rejoice at what does not yet exist.


18. If you don’t grab it with your soul, you won’t hold it with your body for long.


19. God is on time, so learn to wait.


20. This is real happiness, not your iPhones.


21. When your children achieve something, it is much more important than their own achievements.


22. Take care of your parents, because while they are alive, we are children!


23. Conscience is like that... It torments not those whom it should torment, but those who have it.


24. One of the greatest fears for a person is to realize that he has been wrong for a long time.


25. Many people consider it important to find a person in life, but only a few know that it is more important to find yourself.


You have been sleeping for millions and millions of years. Why don't you wake up tomorrow morning?
/Kabir/


If you're not ready to see moreover What is visible, you will not see anything. /Ruth Bernhard/


When art critics get together, they talk about form, structure and meaning.
When artists get together, they talk about where they can buy cheap solvent. /Pablo Picasso/


Try to be kind to your parents. If you must rebel, rebel against those who are not so easily hurt. Parents are too close a target; the distance is such that you cannot miss. /Joseph Brodsky/


On mountain peaks you can only find the zen that you bring there yourself. /Robert Pirsig/


The same word sounds differently for different writers. One has his insides dragging behind his words. The other takes it out of his coat pocket. /Charles Peguy/


My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. /Michel Montaigne/


An unexpected invasion of beauty. That's what life is. /Saul Bellow/


If you imagine yourself as fighting, you feel like retreat is impossible. But you are not a battle. You are the battlefield.


The main idea is to die young as late as possible. /Ashley Montague/


The only true thoughts are the thoughts of a drowning man. Everything else is rhetoric, posture, internal buffoonery. /José Ortega y Gasset/

I don't want to be a genius, I have enough problems, I'm just trying to be human.
/Albert Camus/

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient for beauty. /Charles Baudelaire/

Be kind whenever possible. And this is always possible. /Dalai Lama/


If Galileo had said in poetry that the Earth rotates, the Inquisition would have left him alone. /Thomas Hardy/


Being forty-seven years old, I can say that I learned everything that I was destined to learn before I was seven years old, and for the next forty years I realized it. /Marina Tsvetaeva/

Simplify and then add lightness. /Colin Chapman/

The poem begins like a lump in the throat. /Robert Frost/


Morals, ethics, laws, customs, faith, doctrines - these are all nonsense. What really matters is that the amazing becomes the norm. /Henry Miller/


I never listen to anyone who criticizes my space travel, my attractions, or my gorillas. When this happens, I just pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room. /Ray Bradbury/


Even if you were stupid enough to show yourself, don't worry, they can't see you. /Henri Michaud/


If you think you've already achieved enlightenment, try just spending a week with your family. /Baba Ram Dass/

There is a time to work and there is a time to love. There is no other time. /Coco Chanel/

There is a crack in everything through which light reaches us. /Leonard Cohen/


As we pass through ourselves, we meet robbers, spirits, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, rival brothers. But we always meet ourselves. /Joyce/


People think they stop falling in love when they get old, when in reality they get old when they stop falling in love. /Marquez/


The worst crime is to pretend. /Kurt Cobain/


I do not envy people who have a complete picture of the world in their heads, for the simple reason that they are obviously mistaken. /Salman Rushdie/


The last man on Earth was sitting in a room. There was a knock on the door. /Frederick Brown. "The shortest scary story ever written"/



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