100+ Happy Self Inspirational Quotes to Brighten Your Day

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today."

- James Dean

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- Buddha

"Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make _you_ happy."

- Beyoncé

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

- Dalai Lama

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"You are the only person who can love yourself wholly and completely. Don’t rely on others to fill that space."

- Cynthia Occelli

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."

- Brené Brown

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Dalai Lama

"Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing…just expressed differently."

- Robert McPhillips

"You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth."

- William W. Purkey

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Self-love is the source of all our other loves."

- Yung Pueblo

"It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary."

- Mandy Hale

"Love yourself, fiercely and unconditionally."

- Atticus

"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you."

- Lao Tzu

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"If you want to be happy, be."

- Leo Tolstoy

"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

"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

"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

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas Edison

"Whoever is happy will make others happy."

- Anne Frank

"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

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

- Omar Khayyam

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

- Orhan Pamuk

"Happiness shared is happiness doubled."

- Swedish Proverb

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle."

- Steve Jobs

"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.

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Agnes Repplier

"Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want."

- Alan Cohen

"Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever."

- Peter Hagerty

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

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

- Greg Anderson

"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

- Helen Keller

"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 that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"True happiness…arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self."

- Joseph Addison

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values."

- Ayn Rand

"Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be."

- William Adams

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

"We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you’re doing is in the doing of it. It’s not what you’re gonna get in the end–it’s not the final curtain–it’s really in the doing it, and loving what you’re doing."

- Ralph Lauren

"Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success? If you can, you take the most important step towards becoming a great leader."

- Bill Walton

"Loving-kindness is a wellspring of peace and happiness that you can offer to others. But in order to do that, you must first have love and kindness for yourself."

- James R. Doty, M.D

"You’re safe. You can stop being ashamed of your past. You can stop creating stories that everyone will leave you. Believe in your ability to get through anything. Look how far you’ve come. You’re safe now."

- Dr. Nicole LePera

"Self-love is the practice of appreciating and nurturing yourself in every moment."

- Yung Pueblo

"The first step to loving who you are is to accept who you are, including the parts you might not be proud of. Embrace your journey and believe in your potential."

- Jasmine Star

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

- Christopher Germer

"Be kind to yourself, and then let your kindness fill the world."

- Pema Chödrön

"She remembered who she was and the game changed."

- Lalah Delia

"She believed she could, so she did."

- R. S. Grey

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

- Mark Twain

"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."

- Robert Tew

"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."

- Swati Sharma

"You are deserving of the love that resides within you."

- Brianna Wiest

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Love yourself enough to follow your passions."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Everything you ever wanted is learning how to draw it out of yourself because you are that powerful."

- Lumalia

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging."

- Brené Brown

"Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions."

- Kathryn Budig

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

- Gautama Buddha

"Nothing can disturb your peace of mind unless you allow it to."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Inner peace is not found by staying on the surface of life but by diving deep within."

- Eckhart Tolle

"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."

- Anne Frank

"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"Inner peace is not about denying emotions but accepting them and allowing them to pass through you without resistance."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

"Change is inevitable, but growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change their future by merely changing their attitude."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

"Count your blessings, not your troubles."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful."

- Rumi

"Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious; you get to choose how you use it."

- Brianna Wiest

"When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself."

- Paulo Coelho

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

- Pablo Picasso

"Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it."

- Gautama Buddha

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"Faith is seeing the light with your heart when all you with your eyes is darkness. Faith is fully trust in the unknown that lives within you. In short, faith is believing who you truly are."

- Luis Ojeda

"One of the greatest lessons in compassion I had learned was that holding onto resentment and anger doesn’t serve anyone, especially yourself."

- James R. Doty, M.D

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"Don’t forget that you’re human. It’s okay to have a meltdown, just don’t unpack and live there. Cry it out and then refocus on where you are headed."

- Brianna Wiest

"Only the pursuit of happiness is guaranteed. The rest is up to you."

- David T. Fagan

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one remembers to turn on the light."

- Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not people or things."

- Albert Einstein

"Happiness is already there. It is within us. We have just forgotten it and need to remember it again."

- Socrates

"There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved."

- George Sand

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

- Anne Frank

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

- John Lubbock

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

- Rosamunde Pilcher

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

"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

"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

- Zig Ziglar

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"Don’t count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"The only limits you have are the limits you believe."

- Wayne Dyer

"Your life only gets better when you get better."

- Brian Tracy

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here."

- Max Ehrmann

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore."

- C. JoyBell C.

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

- Hafez

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Lillian Gish

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."

- John Wooden

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."

- Michael Phelps

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

- Charles Dickens

"Creativity takes courage."

- Henri Matisse

"In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"Contentment is the philosopher's stone that turns everything it touches into gold."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You’re allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

- Brianna Wiest

"It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Dolly Parton

"No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance."

- Robert Holden

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it."

- Maya Angelou

"It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it."

- Sue Hadfield

"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."

- Frida Kahlo

"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down."

- Toni Morrison

"Women are like teabags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

- Charles M. Schulz

"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"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

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

- Jennifer Niven

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"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

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t."

- Thomas A. Edison

"War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate."

- Marvin Gaye

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- Mae Jemison

"Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word."

- Brian Tracy

"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The time is always right to do what is right."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."

- Thomas Edison

"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

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

- Charles Dickens

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

- Marie Curie

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started."

- David Allen

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."

- Joyce Meyer

"When you connect with your body and embrace its messages, you will discover the power of self-love."

- Phillip Shepherd

"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being."

- Hafiz of Shiraz

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

"Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice."

- Edwin Louis Cole

"Self-doubt kills talent."

- Edie McClurg

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

- Roald Dahl

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

- Henri Matisse

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- Andrew Carnegie

"don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"Every closed door isn’t locked and even if it is…YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities!"

- Sanjo Jendayi

"The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you."

- Brian Tracy

"Change the game, don’t let the game change you."

- Macklemore

"To see what is right and not do is a lack of courage."

- Confucius

"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."

- Brian Tracy

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

"Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur."

- Mohnish Pabrai

"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

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

- Chief Tui

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

- Nicole Kidman

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

"We forge the chains we wear in life."

- Charles Dickens

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life."

- Akshay Dubey

"The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Snow White

"Healing comes when we choose to walk away from darkness and move towards a brighter light."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

- Peter Pan

"Make sure your worst enemy is not living between your own two ears…"

- Nitya Prakash

"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

"Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"It hurt because it mattered."

- John Green

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

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

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

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

"Happiness is a journey, not a destination."

"Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today."

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

"Every setback is a setup for a comeback."

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are."

"Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have."

- Unknown

"A strong woman is one who feels deeply and loves fiercely. Her tears flow just as abundantly as her laughter."

"A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else."