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Words from great and famous people that make you forget negativity in an instant! favorite_border Last updated:2026/2/6
Words from great and famous people that make you forget negativity in an instant! 10 years as a kindergarten teacher / elementary school teacher / junior and senior high school teacher / childminder kepiko Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Faculty of Music (now: Department of Music Culture and Education, Early Childhood Music Education major). In elementary school, my homeroom teacher was Jun Kusaba, a game researcher. After graduating from university, I worked as a kindergarten teacher for 10 years and as an after-school childcare instructor for 7 years, then took a position as a music teacher at an international school in Singapore. In addition to music education, I engaged in activities that introduced Japanese culture, traditional games, and recreational activities, working with many children. Later, through freelance writing, planning, and editing at Shogakukan, I met many delightful adults and experienced the joy of communicating and sharing. Drawing on the perspective cultivated in the field of education and my experience as an editor, I provide practical information with an emphasis on both input and output, mainly in areas related to music and children. My hobbies include instruments, singing, handicrafts, toys, drawing, traditional games, the outdoors, and books. My special skill is spinning-top tricks.
No matter how cheerful someone is, there are times when they worry or feel down.
If you tend to think negatively to begin with, that’s probably all the more true.
But even so, when you’re chased by the things you have to do every day, your heart grows more and more tired.
So this time, I’ve gathered uplifting words from great figures and famous people.
Each is a short, one-line phrase, so they’re easy to remember and recall.
Be sure to check them out and find the words that suit you!
Table of Contents Words from great and famous people that make you forget negativity in an instant! What matters is not who you’ve been up to now, but who you’ll be from here on. Ella Fitzgerald Spring comes to all living beings. Keep hope. Solid Snake The problem lies in the future. That’s why I don’t look back at the past. Bill Gates Find a way. If there isn’t one, make one. Hannibal Barca Your happiness in life depends on the quality of your thoughts. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus If you can dream it, you can achieve it. Walt Disney Weaknesses will eventually become character. Albert Einstein I have never failed. I’ve only found 10,000 ways that don’t work. Thomas Edison Only one thing is needed: to believe you can do it. Anthony Robbins Why not give it a try? Do you have anything to lose? The future is not something you predict; it’s something you make possible yourself. Saint-Exupéry No matter how distant the dream you envision, as long as you believe in your own potential, it remains within reach. Hermann Hesse Beyond the clouds, the sky is always blue. Louisa May Alcott Don’t rush. But don’t give up. Shigeta Saitō If you don’t give up, there will always be a way. Always. Sakichi Toyoda Not being satisfied is the best technique for improving your ability. Wayne Gretzky To solve a problem, don’t run away from it. Jack Dorsey You only realize your own strength once you’ve overcome your anxieties and concerns. Serena Williams As long as you keep challenging yourself, failure does not exist. Mark Zuckerberg “Anyone can succeed.” If you keep telling yourself that over and over, you will absolutely be able to succeed. John Lennon As long as you keep striving without ever losing sight of a good purpose, you will surely be saved in the end. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Most people possess a courage more remarkable than they themselves would expect. Dale Carnegie Just because you’ve been beaten down doesn’t mean you have to get discouraged. Even after all that beating and whipping, eggs still make a cake rise. Mary Johnston If you don’t give up on yourself, there is no such thing as losing in life. Shigeta Saitō We do not laugh because we are happy; we are happy because we laugh. William James A woman who has cried enough tears to wash her eyes gains a wider field of vision. Dorothy Dix Every difficulty holds a gift for you in both hands. Richard Bach 98% of our worries are needless. Masahiro Fujimura If you don’t fail, you won’t succeed. Coco Chanel Write it as failure, read it as growth. Katsuya Nomura It’s just a bad day, not a bad life. Johnny Depp He who fails to prepare is preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin It’s okay. Let’s rebuild again. Akio Tadano If you endure, you will surely become a strong person. Senichi Hoshino It’s never too late to become the person you wanted to be. George Eliot The only people who never make mistakes are those who do nothing. Theodore Roosevelt There is no piece that cannot move forward. Makoto Nakahara If you keep looking down, you won’t be able to find a rainbow. Charles Chaplin No matter how dark it is, the stars are shining. Ralph Waldo Emerson Competence can be learned. Peter Drucker Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Hideyo Noguchi I was born to accomplish something in this world. Hideyo Noguchi Being a person with a disability is not a problem in academia. Hideyo Noguchi If you truly fought for what is right, there’s no shame in losing. Katherine Anne Porter Even if you’re knocked down 99 times, all you need is to stand up the 100th time. Vincent van Gogh My inner self commands me to keep going like this. Vincent van Gogh If you ever hear a voice within you say, ‘You can’t paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent van Gogh If we had nothing to regret, life would be very empty. Vincent van Gogh Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Abraham Lincoln Words from great and famous people that let you forget negativity in an instant! Positive quotes (1–10) What matters is not who you’ve been up to now, but who you’ll be from here on.NEW! Ella Fitzgerald https://www.tiktok.com/@love__l__love/video/6916078667596664065 Ella Fitzgerald is one of the greatest jazz vocalists, but she can hardly be said to have grown up in good circumstances.
Even while her biological mother was alive, she was placed in an orphanage, and after her mother died of illness and she became an orphan, she often ended up in trouble with the police…
She is said to have experienced homelessness as well.
Her words will surely save those who are in extremely difficult situations right now: Instead of thinking, “I’m worthless anyway,” imagine your future self and cherish a dream for that future.
As long as you don’t give up on yourself, a better future will surely open up.
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Spring comes to all living beings. Keep hope.NEW! Solid Snake https://www.tiktok.com/@drone_taka/video/7074192258215578882 The words of Solid Snake—the legendary soldier from the Metal Gear Solid series, a work that portrays war and humanity—embody an attitude of never losing hope even in the harshest circumstances.
Because they come from someone who has survived countless battlefields, they carry real weight.
The start of a new chapter in life brings anxiety alongside anticipation, but a turning point comes to everyone.
Even if you can’t see it now, spring will arrive as long as you keep moving forward—this message will quietly support your heart.
It’s a quote that gently gives you the strength to go on.
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The problem lies in the future. That’s why I don’t look back at the past.NEW! Bill Gates Bill Gates, one of Microsoft’s founders and a well-known American entrepreneur.
This quote that places importance on the future comes from a successful person—him.
People often look back on the past, don’t they? It’s fine to revisit good memories.
But if what you’re looking back on is past failures or mistakes, you might get stuck there.
What lies ahead of you isn’t the past—it’s the future.
Let the past be refined into experience and lessons, and live while imagining a bright future.
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Find a way. If there isn’t one, make one.NEW! Hannibal Barca Hannibal Barca, renowned as Carthage’s great general who defeated the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
This famous quote is undeniably the powerful words of a true commander.
In 221 BCE, at the young age of twenty-six, he became the army’s commander and achieved numerous victories.
Perhaps this was because, as the quote suggests, he constantly sought ways to win, and if none could be found, he would create them himself.
His lofty ambition and unwavering resolve elevated him to a great general and made him a figure remembered and spoken of to this day.
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Your happiness in life depends on the quality of your thoughts.NEW! Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, one of the Five Good Emperors and the 16th Roman emperor.
He is also known for leaving behind his work Meditations, and can be regarded as a model of a philosopher-king who preferred learning over war.
He was also a thinker within Stoic philosophy.
The happiness of life changes according to the quality of one’s own thoughts.
Controlling the mind and emotions through thought also affects how we ultimately interpret things.
In other words, a single way of thinking can make you happy—or unhappy.
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If you can dream it, you can achieve it. Walt Disney These words by Walt Disney teach the importance of dreaming.
If you can envision your dream clearly, all that remains is to do what needs to be done to move toward it.
He said that if you keep taking one step at a time toward your dream, it will one day come true.
When you have a dream you’re chasing but feel anxious about whether it will really happen, remember these words and give it one more push.
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Weaknesses will eventually become character. Albert Einstein Weaknesses that everyone has tend to carry a strong negative image, and many people may be desperate to hide them.
Here is a quotation from Albert Einstein that offers a way of thinking about such weaknesses and makes us consider how to face them.
Rather than eliminating our weaknesses, it suggests that by deliberately keeping them, we can find ways to make use of them—and that this can lead to each person’s own way forward.
It might even be the spark that helps you learn to love the weaknesses you once saw as something unpleasant.
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