100 Happy and Inspirational Quotes to Brighten Your Day

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

- Omar Khayyam

"Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness."

- Ayn Rand

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

- Tom Bodett

"Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

- Helen Keller

"Be happy with what you have while working for what you want."

- Helen Keller

"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"If you want to be happy, be."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

"There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path."

- Buddha

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Whoever is happy will make others happy."

- Anne Frank

"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it."

- Dale Carnegie

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Happiness [is] only real when shared."

- Jon Krakauer

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

- Charles M. Schulz

"Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world."

- Orhan Pamuk

"Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things."

- Ann Brashares

"Happiness shared is happiness doubled."

- Swedish Proverb

"Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."

- Johnny Carson

"I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully."

- Anna Howard Shaw

"There is little success where there is little laughter."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it."

- Jacques Prévert

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."

- Ashley Montagu

"It is not easy to find happiness within yourself, but impossible to find it elsewhere."

- Agnes Repplier

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get."

- Ingrid Bergman

"If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours."

- Dolly Parton

"If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

- Guillaume Apollinaire

"I have chosen to be happy because it's good for my health."

- Voltaire

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing in the world is as contagious as laughter and good humor."

- Charles Dickens

"A Night can NEVER defeat the Sunrise."

- Sumit Sharma

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

- Albert Camus

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

- Ernest Hemingway

"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."

- Jane Austen

"The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count."

- Jennifer Niven

"I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious."

- Vince Lombardi

"I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don’t waste time – grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it’s not fun, move on."

- Richard Branson

"Remember, you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine."

- Snow White

"Now, think of the happiest things. It’s the same as having wings."

- Peter Pan

"There comes a day when you’re gonna look around and realize happiness is where you are."

- Chief Tui

"The only joy in the world is to begin."

- Cesare Pavese

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis."

- Margaret Bonanno

"The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight."

- Epictetus

"Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you’ve got."

- Rosamunde Pilcher

"Joy is not in things; it is in us."

- Richard Wagner

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

- John Lennon

"It’s not about being happy all the time, or being sure of all your choices. It’s about knowing that life is precious, even when it’s tough."

- Topher Kearby

"A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning."

- Lillian Gish

"Don’t ever be ashamed of loving the strange things that make your weird little heart happy."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

- Henri Matisse

"Misery might love company, but so does joy. And joy throws much better parties."

- Billy Ivey

"Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower."

- John Harrigan

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!"

- Dolly Parton

"We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents."

- Bob Ross

"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin."

- John Lubbock

"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."

- Greg Anderson

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

- Mark Twain

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

- Dalai Lama

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

"The best is yet to come."

"Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you."

"Happiness comes in waves. It’ll find you again."

"Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections."

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine."

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy."

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."

"Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness."

"Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower."

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens."

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."

"Happiness is there for the taking — and making."

"Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results."

"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats."

"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object."

"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open."

"True happiness is an acceptance of life as it is given to us, with its diminishment, mystery, uncontrollability and all."

"Be happy with what have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness."

"It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."

"How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of your will."

"Happiness is the best makeup."

"Happiness? That’s nothing more than good health and a poor memory."

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."

"Happiness is a journey, not a destination."

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like."

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"The mere sense of living is happiness enough."

"The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are."

"We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh."

"Some days, you just have to create your own sunshine."

"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."