50 Upside Down Quotes For Changing How You View Things

Sometimes you need a little help viewing things from a different perspective. If so, these upside down quotes are perfect for you!

Life can get stale, and you can miss out on opportunities if you aren’t willing to challenge your standard viewpoint.

Sometimes you have to turn your viewpoint and actions upside down to see things differently.

Here are some ways you can challenge yourself and turn things upside down:

• Stop blaming others or outside situations – You are the creator of your reality, so start taking full responsibility for your life and your actions.
• Take a chance – Be creative and go outside of your comfort zone. Try something new or different than what you would typically do.
• Challenge your thoughts – Why do you think a certain way? Is there a chance things could be different than you have always perceived them to be?
• Lean on your network – It is hard to reach out to others but be willing to put yourself out there. See what opportunities arise from being open to others.

Take a few minutes to read these upside down quotes and see if they change your perspective.

Best Upside Down Quotes for Fresh Thinking

Here are a few quotes to help you challenge your thinking.

1. “Music turns the world upside down.” — Michael Portillo

2. “Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.” — Bill Vaughan

3. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle Onassis

4. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” — Albert Schweitzer

5. “Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.” — John Heider

6. “All it takes is a second, and your whole life can get turned upside down.” — Jodi Picoult

7. “The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.” — Billy Sunday

8. “The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down.” — A.B. Simpson

9. “It’s a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.” — Christopher Morley

10. “The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up” — Billy Graham

Upside Down Quotes to Flip Your Perspective

Challenge your perspective with the following quotes.

11. “I’m always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.” — Tibor Kalman

12. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

13. “When things get turned upside down, it only leads to better quality stuff.” — John Krasinski

14. “I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.” — Ursus Wehrli

15. “I’m interested when things go upside down because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.” — Anna Deavere Smith

16. “Some of us aren’t meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.” — Elizabeth Lowell

17. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss

18. “All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

19. “Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.” — William McChesney Martin

20. “Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.” — George Carlin

Funny Upside Down Quotes

These upside down quotes will put a smile on your face and help you see things differently.

21. “You turn me upside down, like a merry-go-round.” — The Cars

22. “I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I’m upside down.” — Mitch Hedberg

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

24. “I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside down. Like a small child.” — Emo Philips

25. “I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” — Woody Allen

26. “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” — Steve Martin

27. “I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I’m good at everything.” — Demetri Martin

28. “The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” — Steven Wright

29. “When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want them to bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass.” — Bobby Knight

30. “If you take a frown and turn it upside down, the person you are holding by the ankles will soon pass out.” — Woody Allen

When Your Life is Turned Upside Down Quotes

If you’ve found your life suddenly turned upside down, these quotes may help.

31. “My whole life turned upside down once I became a mother.” — Sonali Bendre

32. “Like a fool, I fell in love with you, turned my whole world upside down.” — Eric Clapton

33. “At some stage in most people’s lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.” — Susanne Bier

34. “Yes, you can lose somebody overnight. Yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short.” — Shania Twain

35. “Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way – it’s the best.” — Katherine Kelly

36. “There is no better news than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.” — Cliff Richard

37. “Life is a funny thing. The minute you think you’ve got everything figured out, something comes along and turns it all upside down.” — Zayn Malik

38. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein

39. “I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn’t a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.” — Anne Fortier

40. “No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down.” — Slash

Additional Upside Down Quotes

Here are a few more quotes to get you to see things differently.

41. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama

42. “Newman’s first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.” — Paul Newman

43. “I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.” — Daphne Guinness

44. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

45. “When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize but it’s the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.” — Louie Schwartzberg

46. “The world is upside down; it’s going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.” — Leymah Gbowee

47. “The best path between two points is upside-down, between, then inside-out and round again.” — Lulu

48. “Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine

49. “Just knowing that the world is round / Here I’m dancing on the ground / Am I right side up or upside down? / Is this real or am I dreaming?” — Dave Matthews

50. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’” — Martin Luther King Jr.

What Stops People From Turning Their Lives Upside Down?

Most of us are creatures of habit, and we don’t necessarily enjoy change, so it is easy to fall into a routine and let life pass you by.

Take control of your life by putting aside fear, your comfort zone, your routine, and the easy way of things by trying to turn your life upside down for a week.

During that week, try new things, change your routine, think about things differently, and see what happens.

Share these upside down quotes with your friends and family, and share your favorite quote in the comment section below.