A must-see for those who just can’t stay positive! A collection of inspiring quotes to lift a heavy heart
Everyone has times when their motivation dips, they stumble along the way, or they feel utterly crushed.
For moments like these, I’ve gathered some uplifting quotes.
By encountering words you’ve never known, you might discover a version of yourself you’ve never met.
Through new words, you may start to feel that the time you’re spending worrying right now is too precious to waste!
You might even think, “What a waste to keep worrying!”
When you want to meet a new you, I highly recommend listening to the words of many different people.
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A Must-Read for Anyone Who Just Can’t Stay Positive! Inspirational Quotes to Lift a Downcast Heart (21–30)
Today is always preparation for tomorrow. What you do today will surely come back to you tomorrow.Yutaka Mizutani
It’s hard to keep making continuous effort, and there are moments when you feel tempted to put it off until the next opportunity.
These are words from Yutaka Mizutani to remember when you feel like giving up: he talks about how your efforts connect to the future.
He calls on us to remember that what we do today will surely lead to tomorrow, and that this is how the road to the future continues.
It gives the impression that he lightens the call to do our best today for the sake of tomorrow by expressing it with the easily understood word “preparation.”
If you can learn from failure, that failure is a success.Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Forbes is known as the publisher of the business magazine Forbes.
After serving in the military and as a New Jersey state senator, he succeeded his father and brother to become president of B.C.
Forbes Publishing and achieved great success as a businessman.
His words carry a unique persuasiveness born of his deep knowledge of politics and economics.
If you can view failure as success—maintaining that positive and flexible mindset—you can take on any challenge.
Keep this close to your heart.
If you want to see a rainbow, you have to put up with a little rain.Dolly Parton
Known also as a humanitarian, Dolly Parton is a leading figure in American country music.
Many of you may know “9 to 5,” the theme song from the hit film starring Jane Fonda.
If you haven’t heard it yet, please give it a listen! Hearing her breezy, no-nonsense words can make your own fretting over trivial things feel downright silly.
“If something bad happens, something good is surely waiting afterward.” How about switching to that positive mindset starting today?
If you don’t give up on yourself, there is no such thing as ‘losing’ in life.Shigeta Saitō
When you’re overwhelmed by that sense of defeat—thinking, “I’m such a failure”—these words will surely help you.
They’re golden words from Shigeo Saito, a psychiatrist who was also an author.
The message is powerful: in life, the true ‘defeat’ is the heart that gives up on your own potential and growth.
Conversely, as long as you don’t give up, no matter the circumstance, you haven’t lost.
When you feel as low as you possibly can, I believe these words will be like a lifeline.
Being alive itself is, by nature, happiness.Kazlaser
In this age overflowing with information on social media, seeing someone else’s seemingly fun life can make you feel like you have nothing, or leave you discouraged by comparison.
But if you think about it, simply getting through today safely, or enjoying a good meal—those small joys and learnings, accumulated day by day, are valuable in their own right.
What matters is not comparing yourself to others, but paying attention to what kind of day you had today, what you felt, and what you did.
By doing so, your heart will gradually become calmer, and you’ll be able to appreciate the very fact of being alive and notice the small happinesses in your life.
Humans will end up happy anyway.Kazlaser
There are movies that don’t end with a happy ending, right? How many can you name? I dislike stories that don’t end happily—I simply won’t read, watch, or listen to them.
Depending on how you take it, I think Kazlaser’s words here can sound quite cruel, because there are people who, no matter what, can’t feel happy.
But try prefacing it with “Even so,” and then read the line: “Humans are bound to end up happy anyway.” Doesn’t it even bring Kaz’s smile to mind? It’s something I want you to remember when you feel like you’re about to lose heart.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.Stephen Hawking
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do.” These are the words of Dr.
Stephen Hawking, the British physicist who passed away on March 14, 2018.
Diagnosed at 21 with a severe, muscle-wasting disease, and later brought to the brink of death by pneumonia while traveling in 1985, he persevered.
His attitude of finding what he could do, no matter the adversity, is truly admirable.