100+ Happy Short Inspirational Quotes to Brighten Your Day

"If you want to be happy, be."

- Leo Tolstoy

"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

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Goldie Hawn

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

- Frederick Keonig

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

- Greg Anderson

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- John Lennon

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."

- John Lennon

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Omar Khayyam

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Helen Keller

"Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

- Denis Waitley

"Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

- Anne Frank

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever."

- Walt Disney

"Happiness isn’t a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well lived."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things."

- Walt Disney

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- George Sand

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

- Maya Angelou

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dolly Parton

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

"A simple smile. That’s the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others."

- Dalai Lama

"If you ever have to decide between winning a fight or being happy, choose happiness. Being happy automatically makes you a winner."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Happiness is the highest form of health."

- Dalai Lama

"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

"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."

- Marianne Williamson

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- John Barrymore

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

"The mere sense of living is happiness enough"

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Roald Dahl

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

- Alan Cohen

"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- George Eliot

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

- Nora Ephron

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Steve Jobs

"Be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Winston Churchill

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one!"

- Dolly Parton

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

- Anais Nin

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Marie Curie

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"You become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"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

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

- Socrates

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Amelia Earhart

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"You are your best thing."

- Toni Morrison

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Albert Einstein

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

- Olivia Newton John

"You don’t need too many people to be happy, just a few real ones who appreciate you for who you are."

- Wiz Khalifa

"I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy."

- Vera Nazarian

"Turn your wounds into wisdom"

- Oprah

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

"The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go."

- Dodinsky

"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Smile at strangers and you just might change a life."

- Masashi Kishimoto

"It’s not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The healthiest response to life is joy."

- Deepak Chopra

"The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."

- Socrates

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."

- Joseph Addison

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

- E. E. Cummings

"Happiness is a direction, not a place."

- Sydney J. Harris

"Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness."

- Christian Dior

"Never regret anything that made you smile."

- Mark Twain

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

- Walt Whitman

"You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing."

- Maurice Chevalier

"Trouble knocked at the door, but hearing laughter, hurried away."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Independence is happiness."

- Susan B. Anthony

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

- Hosea Ballou

"True happiness is found inside the heart."

- Anurag Prakash Ray

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

- Milton Berle

"And finally, in all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured."

- Gordon B. Hinchley

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Comparison is an act of violence against the self."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Being happy never goes out of style."

- Lilly Pulitzer

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."

- John Stuart Mill

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

- Mike Dooley

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

- Sam Sundquist

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

- J.P. Morgan

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Alexander the Great

"Be somebody who makes everyone feel like a somebody."

- Courtney Shields

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"Never feel guilty for doing what’s best for you."

- Dushant Isankar

"Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."

- Phyllis Diller

"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

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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

- Nido Qubein

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

- Karen Kaiser Clark

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

- Germany Kent

"Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing."

- Jarod Kintz

"A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life."

- Coco Chanel

"But if you’re broken, you don’t have to stay broken."

- Selena Gomez

"Simplicity makes me happy."

- Alicia Keys

"Breathe in the good shit, breathe out the bullshit."

- Karen Salmansohn

"She wore a smile like a loaded gun."

- Atticus

"My dream job would be the Karma Delivery Service."

- Bill Murray

"The older you get the better you get… unless you’re a banana."

- Betty White

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

- Taylor Duvall

"Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth."

- (Attributed to various sources)

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"Happiness is the best makeup."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The best is yet to come."

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

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"When you focus on the good, the good gets better."

"Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth."

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

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

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

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

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

"We grow through what we go through."

- Anonymous

"Exist to be happy, not to impress."

"Happiness is an inside job."

- Anonymous

"No rain, no flowers."

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

"Trust the next chapter because you are the author."

"Life is better when you cry a little, laugh a lot, and are thankful for everything you’ve got."

"Life is better when you’re laughing."

"The secret to having it all… is knowing you already do."

"You’ve survived 100% of your worst days."

"Laughter is the best medicine. But if you’re laughing without any reason, you need medicine."

"True happiness is found by living in the present moment"

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

"Never let anyone treat you like you’re regular glue. You’re glitter glue."

"Some people call me crazy. I prefer the term happy with a twist."

"They say money doesn’t bring happiness, but everyone still goes out there to see it for themselves."

"It’s okay if you don’t like me. Not everyone has good taste."

"Always keep your chin up, otherwise you’re just staring at your boobs all day."