100 Happy and Inspiring Quotes to Brighten Your Day

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction."

- Germany Kent

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

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

- Roald Dahl

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it's about doing, being and becoming."

- Mike Dooley

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Orhan Pamuk

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

- John Lennon

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

- Ann Brashares

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Dalai Lama

"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

"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

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

- Charles Dickens

"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.

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Omar Khayyam

"Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"If you want to be happy, be."

- Leo Tolstoy

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Ayn Rand

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you're not going to stay where you are."

- JP Morgan

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

- Chief Tui

"Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"You are never too old to reinvent yourself."

- Steve Harvey

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."

- Karen Kaiser Clark

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."

- Criss Jami

"New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours."

- Alex Morritt

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

- Charles M. Schulz

"Happiness shared is happiness doubled."

- Swedish Proverb

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

- Ingrid Bergman

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

- Charlotte Bronte

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

- Guillaume Apollinaire

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"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

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

- Jennifer Niven

"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

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

- Agnes Repplier

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

- Peter Pan

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

- Jane Austen

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"This year, be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun."

- Taylor Duvall

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

- Snow White

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

"The best is yet to come."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

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

"Happiness is a journey, not a destination."

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