50 Inspirational Feel Good Quotes to Brighten Your Day

"You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."

- Stephen King

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

"It’s fun to do the impossible."

- Walt Disney

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Only I can change my life. No one else can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

"Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Mae West

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."

- Roy T. Bennett

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Carol Burnett

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."

- Jon Bon Jovi

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

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

- Walt Disney

"Happiness is not by chance but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Dolly Parton

"Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world."

- Roald Dahl, Matilda

"The moment where you doubt you can fly, you cease for ever being able to do it."

- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

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

- Walt Whitman

"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."

- Michelle Obama

"Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today."

- James Dean

"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."

- Taylor Swift

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

- Colin Powell

"Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

- Ian Maclaren

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible’."

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Alice Walker

"Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can."

- Vince Lombardi

"If you dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Macklemore

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Rob Siltanen

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Marvin Gaye

"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

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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.

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will’. Consider nothing impossible then treat possibilities as probabilities."

- Charles Dickens

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Walt Disney

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

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

- Helen Keller

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

- Nelson Mandela

"Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Walt Disney

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up."

- Vince Lombardi

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"We become what we think about."

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Deep Roy

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything you do."

- Brian Tracy

"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

"The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!"

- Brian Tracy

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

- Helen Keller

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- William James

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

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

- William James

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

- William James

"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."

- William James

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

- Henry David Thoreau

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Albert Einstein

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them."

- Albert Einstein

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream."

- Paulo Coelho

"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."

- Brian Tracy

"Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?"

- Brian Tracy

"We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

- Chuck Palahniuk

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

- Maya Angelou

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body."

- Brian Tracy

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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 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

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

- Brian Tracy

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Michael Phelps

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

- Confucius

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

- Brian Tracy

"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

"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

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

- Og Mandino

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

- John Wooden

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Lindsey Vonn

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"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

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Mohnish Pabrai

"Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

- Jimmy Dean

"Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today."

- Will Rogers

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

- Michael Altshuler

"Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences."

- Brian Tracy

"It hurt because it mattered."

- John Green

"It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."

- Henry C. Link

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Nicole Kidman

"Self-doubt kills talent."

- Edie McClurg

"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy."

- Dr. Henry Link

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

- Hasidic Proverb

"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time."

- Don Zimmer

"Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality."

- Brian Tracy

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Nitya Prakash

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

- Henry David Thoreau

"It’s a whole lot more satisfying to reach for the stars, even if you end up landing only on the moon."

- Kermit the Frog, The Muppets

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing’s going to get better. No, it’s not."

- Dr. Seuss

"Do or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

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

- Joseph Campbell

"A calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Dennis Kimbro

"Don’t worry about failures. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try."

- Jack Canfield

"A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles."

- Tim Cahill

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

- Les Brown

"Friends are the family we choose."

- Jennifer Aniston

"My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you."

- Mavis Staples

"Kindness is one thing you can’t give away. It always comes back."

- George Skolsky

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."

- Les Brown

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

- William James

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

- Lucille Ball

"Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window—or break down a door."

- Brooke Shields

"The key to life when things get tough is to just keep moving. Just keep moving."

- Tyler Perry

"When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, "What are you gonna do about it?" I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me."

- Beyonce

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive."

- Matt Cameron

"You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try."

- Dolly Parton

"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."

- Michael Jordan

"Every strike brings me closer to a home run."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Albert Einstein

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

"You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events."

- Joel Osteen

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

- Dolly Parton

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

- Dolly Parton

"Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own."

- Michelle Obama

"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

- Tom Hanks

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream of coming true."

- Walt Disney

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

- Winston Churchill

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- Aristotle

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

- Anaïs Nin

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- Toni Morrison

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Truman Capote

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."

- Oscar Wilde

"You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty."

- Lady Gaga

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."

- Naomi Osaka

"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself."

- Gabrielle Union

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

- Duke Ellington

"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."

- Roxane Gay

"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Robert Frost

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll just get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."

- Albert Einstein

"Just keep swimming."

- Finding Nemo

"If plan A doesn’t work, there are 25 more letters in the alphabet!"

- Claire Cook

"You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

- Bonnie Prudden

"Shine like the whole universe is yours."

- Rumi

"It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction."

- Herman Su

"Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive."

- Jim Thompson

"A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

- Joyce Meyer

"Always let your conscience be your guide."

- Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

- Roald Dahl, The Minpins

"Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look."

- Jodi Picoult

"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

"Fairytales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairytales tell children that dragons can be killed."

- G. K. Chesterton

"When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another…"

- J.A. Tran

"With a smile and a song, life is just like a bright sunny day. Your cares fade away."

- Snow White

"When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now…"

- Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen

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

- Lewis Carroll

"Just because it’s what’s done doesn’t mean it’s what should be done!"

- Cinderella

"Even miracles take a little time."

- The Fairy Godmother, Cinderella

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

- Naomi Judd

"Inhale the future. Exhale the past."

- Eckhart Tolle

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

"There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking."

"For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."

"Take your dreams seriously."

"Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place."

"Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too."

"Every day is a second chance."

"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."