Blow away your anxiety and doubts! Short phrases that lift your spirits and set you on a positive path.
Anyone can find themselves dwelling on negative thoughts at times.
For those with dreams or goals, it might be when you can’t feel the growth or results you hoped for; for those who haven’t yet found what they want to do, it might be anxiety about the future or life itself.
The form it takes differs from person to person.
So this time, I’ve put together a list of short phrases that can help lift your spirits.
I hope it will be of help when you’re feeling down or troubled and just can’t seem to feel positive.
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Blow away your anxiety and doubts! Short phrases that lift your spirits (11–20)
While there is life, there is hope.Miguel de Cervantes
Even when you face pain and sorrow so deep you feel you can’t get back up, as long as you’re alive, you’ll be okay.
The novelist Miguel de Cervantes, who wrote Don Quixote de la Mancha, gives us that hope.
As long as you have life, you can try again, and you can also walk a different path.
That’s why, even when things are hard, don’t think this is the end—lift your eyes forward once more.
Let these words be the spark that helps you hold on to that hope.
No matter how dark it is, the stars are shining.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson, the American thinker.
A philosopher and poet as well, he left us words that invite free interpretation by the reader.
When you work hard and still see no results, anyone would feel anxious.
But even then, perhaps it’s telling us that something is moving forward—that “things are progressing in ways you can’t yet see,” offering us courage.
Even such an interpretation seems to be allowed.
How did you take it? It’s a short phrase, but it carries a sense of being saved—one of those profoundly good quotes that makes you feel that way.
Great success is born from the freedom to fail.Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook.
While enrolled at the prestigious Harvard University—often called one of the world’s top institutions—he created Facebook and gained 10,000 users in just one month.
Amazingly, he became so busy that he dropped out of college afterward! People around him must have been quite shocked.
Zuckerberg launched many projects beyond Facebook, and surely there were quite a few that didn’t succeed.
Perhaps that’s why his words resonate all the more deeply with us.
No success for those without dreams.Yoshida Shōin
There is an English proverb: “Where there is a will, there is a way.” Given Yoshida Shōin’s broad learning, he surely knew these words as well.
The phrase has a powerful ring that truly suits Yoshida Shōin, who dashed through the turbulent late Edo period as Japan met a new era.
Those who played active roles in the Meiji Restoration were likely inspired and spurred on by his words.
What is your dream? From the moment you decide what you want to become, you begin walking the path to success.
Do your best.
Walk, walk—the importance of keeping going.Tadataka Ino
Ino Tadataka was a great figure who spent about 17 years surveying the entire country during the Edo period and completed a map of Japan that is nearly identical to modern ones.
Having achieved success as a merchant, Ino became deeply engaged in calendrical studies, astronomy, and geography around the age of fifty.
At fifty-six, under orders from the shogunate, he embarked on the path of creating a map of Japan.
Needless to say, there were no modern, convenient surveying instruments.
He could not have clearly seen the goal—how vast Japan truly was, or whether there would be an end to completing the map.
Even in such circumstances, his strong will, vitality, and energy to keep walking no matter what come through vividly in his words.
The only people who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.Theodore Roosevelt
The 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was renowned not only as a politician but also as a soldier, writer, hunter, explorer, and naturalist.
His famous quote, “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything,” teaches us the importance of taking action.
It’s true that if you do nothing, you won’t make mistakes—but you also won’t gain anything.
When you take action, mistakes will happen; that very fact is proof that you tried to do something.
It’s a message that those who hesitate out of fear of failure especially need to hear—an uplifting quote that encourages a forward-looking mindset.
Blow away your anxieties and doubts! Short phrases that lift your spirits (21–30)
You have to change your own world yourself.Shinichi Chiaki (Nodame Cantabile)
There may be days when, looking at those around you, you think, “I’m such a hopeless person.” You slump your shoulders and feel fed up with making an effort or even trying at all.
But in the end, the only one who can change you is yourself.
Shinichi Chiaki from the anime Nodame Cantabile, who aims to be a conductor while carrying a certain trauma, also declared, “If I don’t change my own world, no one will.” Envying others won’t change your situation.
To change, effort is necessary.
And if you’ve made even a little more effort and grown a bit compared to yesterday, that alone is enough.
In truth, it might not matter what others are doing; as long as you’ve achieved growth that you can accept and your own world has changed, that may be all you need.
