200+ Happy Quotes to Inspire Joy and Positivity

"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

"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

"Whoever is happy will make others happy."

- Anne Frank

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

- Ann Brashares

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

- Helen Keller

"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

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

- Denis Waitley

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

- Mother Teresa

"Ask yourself, "Who can I make smile this morning?" This is the art of creating happiness."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life– to be happy. It's all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."

- Mary Lou Retton

"Happiness is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions."

- 14th Dalai Lama

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine —and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"The most wasted of days is one without laughter."

- E.E. Cummings

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

- John Lennon

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

- Omar Khayyam

"Happiness shared is happiness doubled."

- Swedish Proverb

"If you want to be happy, be."

- Leo Tolstoy

"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

"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

"Happiness [is] only real when shared."

- Jon Krakauer

"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

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

- Agnes Repplier

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Chief Tui

"Never regret anything that made you smile."

- Mark Twain

"True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness."

- Buddha

"Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved."

- Pooh

"A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person."

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!"

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- C.S. Lewis

"All our dreams can come true —if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."

- Viola Davis

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

- Willie Nelson

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again."

- Anne Frank

"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- Christopher Robin

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

- Hafez

"Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Demi Lovato

"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely."

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Charles Dickens

"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."

- Gabriel García Márquez

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

- W.P. Kinsella

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Orhan Pamuk

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

- Jennifer Niven

"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

"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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Snow White

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

- Roald Dahl

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

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

- Rose Lane

"I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Life is 10% what happens to you, 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"

- George Eliot

"Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them."

- William James

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

- Stephen Hawking

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"

- Rumi

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Dreams don't have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you'll reach your goal."

- Naomi Osaka

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"Attitude is the 'little' thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

"I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make."

- Taraji P. Henson

"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."

- Olivia Newton John

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear."

- Elaine Welteroth

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

- John Barrymore

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

- Ronald Reagan

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"It isn't where you came from. It's where you're going that counts."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals."

- Michelle Obama

"You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- George Eliot

"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

"Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it."

- Lindsey Vonn

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"A dead-end street is a good place to turn around."

- Naomi Judd

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."

- Maya Angelou

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Charlotte Brontë

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

- Jane Austen

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Peter Pan

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"You may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be."

- Michelle Obama

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"

- George Bernard Shaw

"The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

- Howard Zinn

"A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better."

- Sidney Poitier

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

- Alice Walker

"Difficulties are just things to overcome."

- Ernest Shackleton

"The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

"Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."

- Mae Jemison

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."

- Alexander the Great

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- Sylvester Stallone

"I have learned not to allow rejection to move me."

- Cicely Tyson

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

- Herman Melville

"The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."

- Mother Theresa

"Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful."

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you."

- Lupita Nyong'o

"It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then."

- Alice

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

"Life has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go."

- Nicole Kidman

"Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"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

"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."

- Steve Jobs

"Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else."

- Albert Einstein

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

"It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Work is love made visible."

- Kahlil Gibran

"And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."

- Haruki Murakami

"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

- William James

"Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth."

- Shirley Chisholm

"If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down."

- Ray Bradbury

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."

- Galileo Galilei

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."

- Mikhail Gorbachev

"In the long run, you make your own luck —good, bad, or indifferent."

- Loretta Lynn

"I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine."

- Andre Leon Talley

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before."

- Shinzo Abe

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box."

- Meghan Markle

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you."

- Gabrielle Union

"We do not fall in love with the package of the person; we fall in love with the inside of a person."

- Anne Heche

"Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers."

- Amy Poehler

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

- Charles M. Schulz

"First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate."

- John Steinbeck

"For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them."

- Grace Kelly

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care."

- James Caan

"I cannot dance O Lord, unless Thou lead me. If Thou wilt that I leap joyfully then must Thou Thyself first dance and sing! Then will I leap for love... There will I remain and circle evermore."

- Mechtild of Magdeburg

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

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

"Happiness is the best makeup."

"If you're not positive energy, you're negative energy."