117 Short Stay Positive Quotes to Keep You Going
Positive thinking is a powerful force. It extends beyond just your words and actions, influencing those around you as well.
We’ve compiled a collection of the best short, inspirational, motivating, and humorous positive thinking quotes and sayings.
These serve as reminders that everything happens for a reason.
While we all face setbacks, we must stay strong, persevere, and never give up.
Short Stay Positive Quotes for Instagram
“Stay positive; stay hopeful.” ― Joel Osteen
“Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day.” ― George Allen, Sr
“Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.” ― Jenn Proske
“People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It’s really important.” ― Kirsty Coventry
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.” ― Michael Jordan
“If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you.” – Mary Lou Retton
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
“Positive thinking is empowering, positive action is achieving.” – Dr T.P.Chia.
“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” – Winston Churchill
“Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it’ll take their breath away.” – Tony Gaskins
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” – Mary Lou Retton
“Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.” – Joe Peterson
“If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles.” – Widad Akrawi
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” – Zig Ziglar
“A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can’t do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.” – Chuck Norris
“When it rains, it pours? but soon, the sun shines again. Stay positive. Better days are on their way.” – Unknown
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” – Marcus Aurelius
“An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.” – Brian Tracy
“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.” – Domenico Dolce
“In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama
“Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.” – Bikram Choudhury
“Surround yourself with positive people and situations, and avoid negativity.” – Doreen Virtue
“I’m a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.” – Leona Lewis
“One small positive thought can change your whole day.” – Zig Ziglar
“When you go through a negative situation, don’t think about it. Make it positive.” – Yoko Ono
“I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.” – Sonia Sotomayor
“I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.” – Rosie Perez
“A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.” – Joan Lunden
“Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.” – Lou Holtz
“We think positive thoughts and we become a positive person.” – Andrew Evans
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
“No matter what you face, don’t forget if you’re positive, positivity will find you and embrace you.” – Widad Akrawi
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
“The positivity in our life is a function of our thinking. So think positive, stay positive!” – Simi Ngr
“Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.” – Rick Steves
“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!” – Donna Karan
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.” – Michael Jordan
“Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.” – Jenn Proske
“If you absolutely can’t stay positive, don’t go negative, just cruise neutral for a while until you can get back up.” – Terri Guillemets
“STAYING POSITIVE does not mean that things will turn out okay. Rather it is knowing that YOU will be okay no matter how things turn out.” – Unknown
“It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.” – Ellen DeGeneres
“Have fun, be yourself, enjoy life and stay positive.” – Tatiana Maslany
“A fantastic positive ATTITUDE makes a great day! SMILE!” – Mary D. Bradford
“Positive thoughts lead to positive results.” – Maria V. Snyder
“If you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.” – Jodi Picoult
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” – Stephen King
“Even in a bad situation, there’s always a positive side. Even if you can’t see it yet.” – Susane Colasanti
“The most important thing is to stay positive.” – Saku Koivu
“A person with a positive attitude is like a fruit of all seasons.” – Shiv Khera
“Stay positive. Sometimes you don’t even realize you’re blocking your own blessings by thinking negatively and holding on to the past. Learn to let go.” – Germany Kent
“I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying ‘optimistic positive.'” – Michael Weatherly
“I have to think of the positive; that’s how I cope.” – Ingrid Newkirk
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
“Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day.” – George Allen
“Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.” – Joel Osteen
“When you go through a negative situation, don’t think about it. Make it positive.” – Yoko Ono
“Surround yourself with positive people and situations, and avoid negativity.” – Doreen Virtue
“By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.” – Bryant McGill
“Before you leave the house, you need to make up your mind that you’re going to stay positive and enjoy the day no matter what comes your way. You have to decide ahead of time.” – Joel Osteen
Inspirational Quotes About Staying Positive
“Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that’s positive and celebrate that!” – Tyra Banks
“Stay positive in every situation and everything you do, never stop trying, have faith don’t stop due to failure.” – Anurag Prakash Ray
“Stay positive. Sometimes you don’t even realize you’re blocking your own blessings by thinking negatively and holding on to the past. Learn to let go.” – Germany Kent
“Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.” – Tena Desae
“Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.” – Roy T. Bennett
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems.” – Pat Riley
“I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.” – Imelda Marcos
“I’ve always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.” – Thalia
“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.” – Bo Bennett
“I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don’t always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.” – Jennifer Hyman
“Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” – Joseph Campbell
“Grey skies are just clouds passing over.” – Duke Ellington
“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give up to despair. That way lay defeat and death.” – Nelson Mandela
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
“Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn’t take any brains to complain.” – Robert A. Cook
“Positive energy knows no boundaries. If everyone were to spread positive energy on the Internet, the world would be a much better place.” – Lu Wei
“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” – Dalai Lama
“The key to personal transformation is being able to see the positive in every situation. Being positive means that, rather than complaining about a situation, we learn from it. Being positive means that we accept others as they are, instead of finding fault in them or passing judgment on them. Being positive means taking risks and embracing the unfamiliar. Being positive means being able to view ourselves in the most favorable light.” – Roderick Terry
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain
“Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.” – Natalie du Toit
“You’re the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” – Maya Angelou
“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance-the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.” – Thomas Carlyle
“It’s a wonderful things to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.” – Daniel Kahneman
“Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.” – Allen Klein
“A good laugh is sunshine in the house.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
“Every day may not be good… but there’s something good in every day.” – Alice Morse Earle
“You need to stay positive and fresh like bread.” – Sophie Lin
“I must always be positive. No matter what happens on the outside I have positivity inside. And even though this is not an eternal state of mind it’s my daily attitude in life.” – Carol Burgo
“I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.” – Anandh
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis
“Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you’ll have much to live for.” – Ralph Marston
“The more you are positive and say, ‘I want to have a good life,’ the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.” – Chris Pine
“You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.” – Deepak Chopra
“Having a positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.” – Natalie Massenet
“Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals.” – Amy Morin
“Think about every good thing in your life right now. Free yourself of worrying. Let go of the anxiety, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.” – Germany Kent
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” – Joyce Meyer
“Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better.” – Stefon Diggs
“Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” – Shiv Khera
“I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.” – Jake Owen
“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.” – Hans Selye
“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” – Vince Lombardi
“I surround myself with good people who make me feel great and give me positive energy.” – Ali Krieger
“Affirm the positive, visualize the positive and expect the positive, and your life will change accordingly.” – Remez Sasson
“Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.” – Les Brown
“You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that’s a big part of what does make it work.” – Shelley Long
“Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems.” – Lesley Gore
“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy
“Once you believe that you can do something, there is not a single person in the universe who can convince you otherwise.” – Germany Kent
“I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.” – Yani Tseng
“When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy.” – Paolo Coelho
“Some things never change, they simply alter their appearance / Staying positive becomes a question of endurance / Actions are defended with mercurial passion / Seems as if the truth is always subject to fashion trends” – New Academics
“You was unhappy with the outcome. / You came up short again, but you are on your way to a beautiful breakthrough. / Be positive with life. / You can be the gamebreaker. / There is hope in your world. / The clock is still ticking / The game is riding on you. / You can pull this one out. / No one to Call and no to lean on. / You can do it, but do not panic. / Be positive and stay focus.” – Robert Randle
