“It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?”
L. M. Montgomery
DreamsJoy
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.
“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive.”
L. M. Montgomery
CuriosityJoy
“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
WonderMagic
“The sun is shining - the sun is shining. That is the Magic.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
SunshineJoy
“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
Lewis Carroll
SimplicityFunny
“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”
Lewis Carroll
FunnyPeace
“Your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon - laughter.”
Mark Twain
LaughterHumor
“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde
MistakesGrowth
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
Oscar Wilde
LaughterFriendship
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
Jane Austen
CourageConfidence
“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”
Jane Austen
ActionIntegrity
“A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!”
Charles Dickens
CelebrationJoy
“Give us the grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
CouragePeace
“To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NatureHealing
“Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
HonestyWisdom
“Make yourself necessary to somebody.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PurposeKindness
“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau
SolitudePeace
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.”
Henry David Thoreau
HopeAwareness
“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd.”
Walt Whitman
NatureCalm
“Inebriate of air - am I - and Debauchee of Dew.”
Emily Dickinson
NatureJoy
“A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.”
Emily Dickinson
WordsKindness
“The Rainbow comes and goes, and lovely is the Rose.”
William Wordsworth
BeautyNature
“Sweet is the lore which Nature brings.”
William Wordsworth
NatureLearning
“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”
William Blake
WorkHappiness
“The poetry of earth is never dead.”
John Keats
NatureBeauty