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!
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Words from great and famous people that let you forget negativity in an instant! Positive quotes (1–10)
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.
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.
Why not give it a try? Do you have anything to lose?NEW!
When we hesitate to do something, isn’t it often because of the possibility of failure or risk? No one likes to fail, and we can’t know whether our lives will change for better or for worse in a new world.
But think about it for a moment: Do you really want to spend your days unchanging in a stable world just because you’re afraid of failure and risk? This quote asks us that question and teaches us that sometimes we need to take risks.
By continuing to take on challenges without fearing risk or failure, we may find success.
The future is not something you predict; it’s something you make possible yourself.NEW!Saint-Exupéry
Saint-Exupéry, who was both a pilot and a novelist, is loved around the world for his book The Little Prince.
This famous quote carries a powerful message: the future is not something to be predicted and decided in advance, but something to be opened up and realized through our own efforts.
It’s important to consider “What will happen?”, but the results of predictions do not become the future as they are.
Because the future can change in countless ways depending on us, let’s take proactive action to get even a little closer to the future we envision.
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.
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.
I have never failed. I’ve only found 10,000 ways that don’t work.Thomas Edison
The experience of failure can make us feel negative, and sometimes we stop in fear of moving forward.
Here is a quote from Thomas Edison, known as the Wizard of Invention, that encourages us to reconsider how we face failure and gives us the courage to try again.
It expresses the will to keep challenging ourselves—not by seeing something as a failure, but by recognizing it as discovering a way that doesn’t work and learning from it.
Precisely because it can sound like bravado, it also seems to tell us that what we tend to regard as a big failure is actually not such a big deal.