Here’s a compiled list of positive quotes to brighten your day:

1. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible.’” – Audrey Hepburn

2. “I cannot express how important it is to believe that taking one tiny—and possibly very uncomfortable—step at a time can ultimately add up to a great distance.” – Tig Notaro

3. “Here comes the sun. And I say, it’s all right.” – The Beatles

4. “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey

5. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball

6. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou

7. “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” – Ruth Bader Ginsberg

8. “A dead end is just a good place to turn around.” – Naomi Judd

9. “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” – Dalai Lama

10. “Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.” – Tina Fey

11. “You can’t make a cloudy day a sunny day, but you can embrace it and decide it’s going to be a good day after all.” – Jane Lynch

12. “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” – Amy Poehler

13. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” – Stephen King

14. “In your life expect some trouble. But when you worry, you make it double But don’t worry, be happy, be happy now.” – Bobby McFerrin

15. “You’re in the same boat with a lotta your friends. Waitin for the day your ship will come in, and the tide’s gonna turn and it’s all gonna roll your way.” – Dolly Parton

16. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

17. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

18. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

19. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

20. “Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan

21. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell

22. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn

23. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

24. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou

25. “You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle

26. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler

27. “You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.” – Kate Morton

28. “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” – Zora Neale Hurston

29. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

30. “At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.” – Bryan Stevenson

“That is one good thing about this world … there are always sure to be more springs.” – L.M. Montgomery

“These things are good things.” – Dr. Seuss

“Pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it.” – Paulo Coelho

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe

“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” – Philip Pullman

“Thou must gather thine own sunshine.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the important thing is to use it well.” – René Descartes

“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.” – Harvey Mackay

“Walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“Lay plans for something big by starting with it when small.” – Lao Tzu

“No exact recipe for today. Gather all available ingredients and whip yourself up something delicious.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.” – David Feherty

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.” – Walt Whitman

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Desmond Tutu

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” – Charles Dickens

“As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” – Marcus Aurelius

“That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.” – Simone de Beauvoir

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss

“You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” – Harper Lee

“I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.” – Simon and Garfunkel

“I believe great people do things before they are ready.” – Amy Poehler

“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.” – Langston Hughes

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee