“Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.”
Horace
CalmBalance
Positive Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · POSITIVE
Positive Quotes
Read 200 of the best positive quotes on happiness, gratitude, cheerfulness and a good attitude from Helen Keller, Emerson, Franklin and more.
“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”
Jane Austen
Positive ThinkingLetting Go
“The best is the enemy of the good.”
Voltaire
PerfectionismContentment
“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
George Washington Burnap
HappinessPurpose
“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.”
Joseph Addison
GratitudePerspective
“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
Michel de Montaigne
FearWorry
“To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
KindnessFamily
“A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
HappinessPeople
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
William James
WisdomLetting Go
“One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PresentToday
“All mankind love a lover.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
LoveJoy
“People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ChangeHope
“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
BeautyVirtue
“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
Henry David Thoreau
MorningSimplicity
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
Mark Twain
FunnyGratitude
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better man.”
Benjamin Franklin
GrowthNew Year
“Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility.”
Marcus Aurelius
FocusPeace
“Occupy thyself with few things, says the philosopher, if thou wouldst be tranquil.”
Marcus Aurelius
SimplicityPeace
“Thy present opinion founded on understanding, and thy present conduct directed to social good, and thy present disposition of contentment with everything which happens - that is enough.”
Marcus Aurelius
ContentmentPresent
“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, 'He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.'”
Epictetus
HumilityHumor
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
Seneca
TodayLife
“Limiting one's desires actually helps to cure one of fear.”
Seneca
ContentmentFear
“Let us live happily then, though we call nothing our own! We shall be like the bright gods, feeding on happiness!”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
HappinessSimplicity
“He who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober, brightens up this world, like the moon when freed from clouds.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
ChangeGrowth
“With a single bamboo dish of rice, a single gourd dish of drink, and living in his mean narrow lane, while others could not have endured the distress, he did not allow his joy to be affected by it.”
Confucius
JoyContentment