Boost Your Mood with These Positive Attitude Quotes (2024)

Life is full of ups and downs. Sometimes circ*mstances outside your control come and try to knock you off your feet and it can be hard to find a silver lining in anything. Looking out at the world around us, it can be easy to get cynical that anything will change or that we have the power to make an impact. It's hard to fight the glass half-empty mentality when life feels more dark than light, but we learn from the quotes we've gathered from some of our favorite people below that finding and maintaining a positive attitude is important to making it through each day and can even lead us to a life that is flourishing.

One way to bring more positivity into your life is making space for friendships and connections with people that are also positive. These relationships can do wonders to highlight the things and people in our live that we are grateful for. Daily gratitude can bring awareness of the small and also profound things in your life that are a daily gift. Another way to bring more positivity into your life is doing the hard work of becoming at home in yourself and experiencing self-love. Whether through regular self-care, journaling, therapy, exercise, or a combination of all of the above, learning to love ourselves just as we are not only contributes to deeper feelings of inner peace, but also change our mindset about other hard things in our life. You are an incredible person who can do hard things, and while it may not feel like it right now , we can guarantee that going through these quotes will put a little pep in your step and smile on your face.

• “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” —Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
• “Having a positive attitude isn’t wishy-washy, it’s a concrete and intelligent way to view problems, challenges, and obstacles.” —Jeff Moore
• “It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.” —Ellen DeGeneres
• “Building a positive attitude begins with having confidence in yourself.” —Roger Fritz
• “A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.” —Captain Jack Sparrow
• “A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get out of problems.” —Subodh Gupta
• “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking.” —Zig Ziglar
• “The most important thing you’ll ever wear is your attitude.” —Jeff Moore

• “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” —Anne Frank
• “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.” —Helen Keller
• “Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.” —Joe Biden
• “When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” —Maya Angelou
• “You can often change your circ*mstances by changing your attitude.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.” —Dwayne Johnson
• “Be positive. Your mind is more powerful than you think. What is down in the well comes up in the bucket. Fill yourself with positive things.” –Tony Dungy

• “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” —Abraham Lincoln
• “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” —Mary Lou Retton
• “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” —Muhammad Ali
• “You always pass failure on the way to success.” —Mickey Rooney
• “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
• “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.” —Walt Disney

• “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” —Colin Powell
• “You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.” —Dr. Seuss
• “Keep a positive attitude, even if results don’t seem to be occurring as quickly as you want them to.” —James Thompson
• “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” —Dolly Parton
• “You need an attitude of survive. You’re not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.” —Oprah Winfrey
• “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” —Charles Dickens
• “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” —Thomas Jefferson

• “You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” —Les Brown
• “Changing your mindset is a game changer.” —Frank Sonnenberg
• "Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything." –George Bernard Shaw
• “All your dreams can come true f you have the courage to purse them.” —Walt Disney
• “I will always find a way and a way will always find me.” —Charles F. Glassman
• “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” —Kobe Bryant