39 Inspirational And Uplifting Quotes

In our fast-paced, often challenging world, we all need a bit of inspiration and encouragement to keep us going. Words have an incredible power to uplift our spirits, shift our perspectives, and ignite our inner strength. Whether you're seeking motivation to tackle life's hurdles or simply looking to infuse your day with a dose of positivity, you're in the right place. Dive into our carefully curated collection of the top 39 inspirational and uplifting quotes designed to brighten your day and inspire your journey.

1. “Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.” - Diana Wynne Jones

2. “It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” - Leo Tolstoy

3. “Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her.Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning," Maddy said. "If someone sees what's happening and is brave enough to reverse the direction."Reverse the direction?"Yes, turn it around."How would you do that?"You'd do something good," said Maddy. "Or at least you'd keep yourself from doing something bad."But how could you?" said Lina. "When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?"You wouldn't want to," said Maddy. "That's what makes it hard. you do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.” - Jeanne DuPrau

4. “The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.” - Terry Tempest Williams

5. “Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” - Aldo Leopold

6. “Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.” - John L. Lund

7. “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

8. “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.” - Elizabeth Gaskell

9. “It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.” - John Maynard Keynes

10. “... In love, everyone does things that hurt the other person, so there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive” - Yvonne Wood

11. “They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

12. “Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.” - J. Michael Straczynski

13. “She hadn't lied. She hadn't betrayed anyone's trust; still, she felt she had done something wrong. Or rather, she had not yet done the right thing. Was there a difference between these two sins?” - Michael David Lukas

14. “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

15. “There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. ” - Ayn Rand

16. “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

17. “Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but honor and death.” - G.K. Chesterton

18. “in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected by agreed upon procedures and practices, it can never be in the long-term interest of the state or its citizens to flout those procedures at home or associate too closely overseas with the enemies of your founding ideals.” - Tony Judt

19. “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

20. “Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

21. “After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?” - Umberto Eco

22. “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

23. “Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!” - Émile Zola

24. “Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.” - David Mitchell

25. “A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

26. “I'm too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything.” - Barbara Else

27. “There is no wrong time to do the right thing.” - Charles M. Blow

28. “Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, but men are measured by their right.” - Ali Bin Abi Thalib

29. “When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.” - Albert Guinon

30. “Being over there changes a man. Right and wrong don't look so different anymore to some.” - M.L. Stedman

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32. “I find there are usually no extremes in relationships, even friendship. One is not always right or never wrong.” - Boone Brux

33. “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

34. “The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.” - Sebastian Fitzek

35. “But more than that, if you ally yourself with people who are prepared to fight to make a difference, then your life will always be in danger. I don't think it's fair to ever blame the person who makes the stand. Because the Doctor's so old, because he's done this so many times before, he sometimes forgets how dangerous it is. But if he didn't create the danger by opposing evil, if he didn't get these people to help him, then terrible things would happen. Standing up for what's right is always the best thing to do.” - Tom MacRae

36. “Finding the right one is never easy. Especially, when the wrong one looks so right.” - Hanifa Johnson

37. “Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will it be right on your part to ask others to do the same thing just to satisfy your desires? If you cannot tolerate infliction of pain on your body or mind by others' words and actions, what right have you to do the same to others through your words and deeds?Do unto others as you would like to be done by. Injury or violence done by you to any life in any form, animal or human, is as harmful as it would e if caused to your own self.” - Lord Mahāvīra

38. “Right and wrong are very complicated; sometimes I get confused which one to follow.” - M.F. Moonzajer

39. “And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.” - Jeff Lindsay