In times of uncertainty or moments when you're seeking a little extra motivation, a few words can make all the difference. Quotes have the power to inspire, uplift, and encourage us to see the world through a more optimistic lens. Whether you're looking to ignite positive change or simply need a gentle reminder of the beauty in the everyday, our curated collection of the top 30 inspiring and uplifting quotes is here to offer the perfect dose of motivation. Let these words resonate with your spirit and guide you on a journey toward a brighter, more hopeful outlook.
1. “There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.” - Chris Heimerdinger
2. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
3. “Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.” - George Eliot
4. “Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.” - Elmore Leonard
5. “This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.” - Victor Hugo
6. “If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.” - John Patrick Shanley
7. “Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.” - Steve Maraboli
8. “There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without condemning them, because if we condemn them, then we are becoming too involved.” - Ru Freeman
9. “Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.” - Karl Lagerfeld
10. “There's a hard life for every silver spoon.There's a touch of gray for every shade of blue.That's the way I see life.If there was nothing wrong...Then there'd be nothing right.” - Shinedown
11. “It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.” - John Maynard Keynes
12. “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.” - Abraham Lincoln
13. “Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.” - William Ewart Gladstone
14. “Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.” - Davy Crockett
15. “Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.” - Jodi Picoult
16. “At heart, American conservatives like myself are believers in the Constitution. We believe that the principles embodied in the Constitution are enduring, and that to whatever extent we deviate from them we put our liberties at risk. Our views are consistent because we believe in absolute truths and the essential soundness, even righteousness, of the Founder's vision of government.” - Sean Hannity
17. “There are many differing viewpoints on nature versus nurture, and there are those who believe that bad behavior can be excused and understood if a person doesn't know better. The theory that someone who has been abused as a child will go on to abuse their own children, and so on, because they don't know differently is widely held. But children know. We all know.Learned behavior. When a child is abused, he or she knows, even as it is happening, that it is wrong. I knew. I was abused. When a child is treated unfairly in any way, he or she knows that it is wrong. I knew. I was treated unfairly. And when a child is treated with love and affection, he or she knows that it is right. I knew. I saw how other kids were treated with love and affection by their parents. I knew. My soul cried out to me and told me so. We all know. We all know right from wrong. Our souls cry out to us and tell us so. And we decide, we make our choices, and we are responsible for those choices. We, no one else but we, decide.Anger, hurt, pain, humiliation, fear, dread, confusion-all these emotions we choose. De we hold on to our anger, our pain and humiliation, and hit back, or do we strive to understand that we can do better?” - Rosemary Altea
18. “There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or at the very least they lie in the veil of between. I on the other hand, do not belong to any group. I don’t exist. It’s not that I don’t have substance; I have a body like everyone else. I can feel the fire when it burns against my skin, the rain when it caresses my face and the breeze as it fingers my hair. I have all the senses that other people do. I am just empty, inside.” - J.D. Stroube
19. “It's best to let her go," he says.No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.” - Lauren DeStefano
20. “When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.” - Jodi Picoult
21. “The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.” - john gray
22. “Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn.” - Mike Norton
23. “Λόγια που είναι πολύ σωστά φαίνονται σαν παράδοξα.” - Λάο-Τσε
24. “It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they call 'middle-of-the-road' in most cases just means you have a hard time figuring out who between options is dumber. So quite often those who refused to decide were, after all, the bold individuals, the influential ones, the creative ones, those who snatched their own authority.” - Criss Jami
25. “Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul—A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.” - Sophocles
26. “The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?” - Maya Angelou Kwabena kodom Nicholas Sparks Rosa Parks
27. “No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man.There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .” - Ayn Rand
28. “Finding the right one is never easy. Especially, when the wrong one looks so right.” - Hanifa Johnson
29. “If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something.” - Andy Warhol
30. “Right and wrong are very complicated; sometimes I get confused which one to follow.” - M.F. Moonzajer
