99 "One Small Positive Thought In The Morning" Quotes
When the glorious sun rises over the horizon, it symbolizes fresh starts and new beginnings. Help make it a good morning by starting with a positive outlook.
The Dalai Lama said it best, “one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
A positive thought helps us focus on the happier side of life. With the right attitude or mindset shift, we can get through anything that comes our way.
Look no further if you need some get-up, get-going motivation, or inspiration for your day. Are you having some tough times? Find all the encouragement you’re seeking here.
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We can start fresh, renewed and energized each morning with a new daily routine. Take a few lovely deep inhales, and slow exhales, pour your morning coffee or green tea and find peace in these words of wisdom and secrets of success.
You may want some motivation in 2023 or want to start your day with the right attitude and a little joy. Here are 77 “One Small Positive Thought In The Morning” quotes to bring a day filled with motivation, encouragement, and peace of mind.
Get ready. Embrace the sunshine. And remember, one small positive thought in the morning truly has the power to change your morning, day or life.
Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Dalai Lama
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Maya Angelou
One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is to forgive.
What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Roy T. Bennett
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
Be the change you are trying to create.
Mother Teresa
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.
Henry David Thoreau
Things do not change; we change.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Willie Nelson
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
Elbert Hubbard
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
Dwayne Johnson
Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.
The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.
I’ve learned never to say never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a journey, not a destination.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.
Don’t part with your dreams. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Robert H. Schuller
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, ‘Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.’
A lack of resources may slow you down, but don’t let it make you throw away a big idea. Give God five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, forty years, or more. Give God all the time He needs to bring the resources to you!
Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
God always takes the simplest way.
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
Muhammad Ali
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
I never thought of losing, but now that it’ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Walt Disney
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Oprah Winfrey
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
Steve Jobs
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
George Eliot
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
Thomas A. Edison
I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
There’s a way to do it better – find it.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Martin Luther King
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Jon Bon Jovi
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
Benjamin Franklin
You may delay, but time will not.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Helen Keller
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Milton Berle
I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might-have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Widad Akrawi
The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.
If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles.
No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!
Deepak Chopra
The way you think, the way you behave, and the way you eat can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Dr. Seuss
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
I dwell in possibility.
Fortune befriends the bold.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
The Buddha
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
I hope you found at least one quote to help start your morning with positive thinking.
I will leave you with this last one by Walt Disney, “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
There are challenges in life. Our reaction to it, however, is under our control. Choose a positive attitude instead of dwelling on negativity the whole day—live life in a happier state of mind.
Here’s to a new day. Cheers to your best day!