Inspirational Quotes on Happiness!
Welcome to 91 famous inspirational sayings chosen to help increase your happiness!
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Tackling Adversity
- When you focus on lack and smallness, you hamper your ability to see solutions.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author
- Cultivate the ability to say, “Thank you for everything,” and you will find that everything is a gift.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author
- The easy, gentle, and sloping path... is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author
- Do not pay a lot of attention or give energy to the situation from which you are trying to remove yourself.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author

- Embrace adversity. Embrace it with all you have. Because it is the greatest teacher—if you learn from it.
Salma Hayek (born 1966) Mexican-American actress, director, TV/film producer
- Walk away from it until you get stronger. All your troubles will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.
Lady Bird Johnson (1912-2007) First Lady of the U.S. 1963-1969
- However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) U.S. poet, political activist
- Thank and bless the people and situations that challenge you, for they are nudging you to greater good.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author
- A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve (1952-2004) U.S. actor who played Superman; paralyzed from the neck down in 1995
- Work to unmask the ruse of time, which tells us that it's too late (or too hard). It's seldom too late and often very hard.
Joel Bryant, contemporary African-American Christian life coach
- Difficulties keep us on the cutting edge of growth and move us to levels of authority far more rewarding than if the challenge had not occurred.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Asking
- Ask for what you want.
Alan Cohen, (born 1950s) U.S. personal growth/achievement trainer, author
- You need not hesitate about asking largely.
Wallace D. Wattles (1860-1911) U.S. self-help author
- When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme.
From song When You Wish Upon a Star by Ned Washington
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Attitude
- You can have it all.
Arnold Patent, contemporary U.S. spiritual teacher
- Adventure is not outside; it is within.
David Grayson pen name of Ray S. Baker (1870-1946) U.S. journalist, author
- They can because they think they can.
Virgil (70 BCE–19 BCE) Latin epic poet
- The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
T. H. Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist
- Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) U.S. social activist, orator
- The game is not about what you have; it is about how you are seeing it.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author
- It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author
- We must marshal patience, letting time resolve what effort can't and complaints won't.
Joel Bryant, contemporary African-American Christian life coach
- Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault (details unknown)
- In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
Mary Renault (1905-1983) English writer
- Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
Julia Cameron (born 1948) U.S. poet, playwright, filmmaker, teacher, author, artist
- If you want to make a difference, and if you want to do something with your life, you had better stop worrying about what everyone thinks about you.
Dan Fauci (born 1930s) U.S. actor, producer, writer, mastery trainer
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Being Yourself
- You want to be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else.
Liza Minelli (born 1946) U.S. actress, singer
- Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) U.S. women's rights leader
- Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking.
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) U.S. architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, visionary
- If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different.
Johnny Depp (born 1963) U.S. actor
- To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying “Amen” to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish novelist, poet
- It doesn’t matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn’t matter what we do.
Charly Heavenrich, contemporary U.S. author, life coach
- Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author
- When it comes time do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.
Rosellen Brown (1939) U.S. author
- Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.
Dr. William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) U.S. Unitarian theologian
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Choices
- The key factor is not what you want, but why you want it.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author
- There is no private good. What is truly right for you must ultimately serve others.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Daring
- If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Julia Sorel, contemporary U.S. author
- You lose some of the time what you go after. You lose all of the time what you don’t go after.
T. Tuttle (details unknown)
- Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
Joan L. Curcio, contemporary U.S. educator, writer
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Failure
- Living in the past is a failure method.
Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) U.S. metaphysical writer, teacher
- We must develop the ability to put disappointment behind us.
Jay D. Allen (born 1969) Canadian inspirational author, seminar leader
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. Now put foundations under them.
Osa Johnson (1894-1953) U.S. explorer, filmmaker, author
- An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles Kettering (1876-1958) U.S. inventor

- You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford (1892-1979) Canadian Hollywood movie star
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Fear
- I am asked so often by my students, “How can I get rid of fear?” I reply, “By walking up to the thing you are afraid of.”
Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) U.S. metaphysical writer, teacher
- Any form of anxiety-motivated defensiveness or pushing against people or conditions will only weaken you and make you vulnerable.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Fulfillment
- Only soul satisfaction can fulfill you; everything else will leave you hungry.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Giving
- A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Father James Keller (1900-1977) U.S. missionary priest
- Give yourself abundant pleasure, and you will have abundant pleasure to give to others.
Neale Donald Walsch (born 1943) U.S. spiritual author
- If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
Dorothee Solle (1929-2003) German theologian, writer, activist
- We're in a climate that might make you want to hoard, but you should take the risk of giving out. Something always comes back to you from it.
Camila Batmanghelidjh (born 1963) Iranian-born U.K. psychotherapist, social entrepreneur
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Goals
- No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author
- The most powerful way to achieve a goal is to fixate on what you want to create.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author
- Instead of moving toward your goal, live from it, and you will achieve extraordinary results.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Imagination
- Energy goes where attention flows.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author
- If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward (1921-1994) U.S. inspirational writer
- It is better to set one's mind to bearing the misfortunes that are happening than to think of those that may happen.
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French author of maxims
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Judgement
- Judge persons and things in the most favourable light at all times, in all circumstances.
Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) French Roman Catholic priest
- Do not look upon human beings as good or bad. I don't think of my feet as a right foot and a wrong foot.
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) U.S. architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, visionary
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Learning
- If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
Susanne K. Langer (1895-1985) U.S. philosopher, educator
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Limits
- Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Brendan Behan (1923-1964) Irish poet, novelist, playwright
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: NOW
- The only real time is Now.
Alexandra Innes (born 1952) U.K./Canadian author, YummyQuotes.com host
- People who live in the now—those people make things happen.
Cesar Millan (born 1969) Mexican-American dog-behaviour specialist
- Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) Swiss poet, physiognomist
- Moment to moment, we can grow, if we can bring ourselves to meet the moment with our lives.
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) U.S. poet, political activist
- To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig (born 1928) U.S. philosopher, novelist
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Open-mindedness
- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa (1940-1993) U.S. composer, guitarist, record producer, film director
- In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
Richard Feynman (1918-1988) U.S. Nobel Prize-winning quantum physicist

- It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Charles Kettering (1876-1958) U.S. inventor
- I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940) Chinese-American author, professor
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Optimism
- Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Sir Tom Stoppard (born 1937) Czechoslovakian-born U.K. playwright
- Every evil will in some mysterious way become a good.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) U.S. social activist, orator
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Patience
- One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
J. G. Hubbard (details unknown)
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Perfectionism
- Perfection is not a place you arrive at; it is an attitude you enjoy as you go.
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, authorv
- Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker (1948-2004) U.S. clinical psychologist, author, management consultant
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Perseverance
- Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Harvey Mackay (born 1932) U.S. author, columnist, inspirational business speaker
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Power
- Poise is Power.
Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) U.S. metaphysical writer, teacher
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Process
- It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929) U.S. author
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Trust
- Trust your gut.
Barbara Walters (born 1929) U.S. journalist, writer, media personality
- Trust one who has gone through it.
Virgil (70 BCE–19 BCE) Latin epic poet
- Trust your instincts and remember that you are the best expert on your own self.
Harriet Lerner (born 1944) U.S. clinical psychologist, author
- Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903-1998) U.S. pediatrician
- Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favours such a confidence.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Truth
- You can never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) African-American musical entertainer, humanitarian
- No mind ever receives the truth until it is prepared to receive it.
Claude M. Bristol (1891-1951) U.S. investment banker, self-help author
- It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) Anglo-Irish physicist
- Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) English chemist, physicist
- We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French author of maxims
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Work
- What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.
Julia Cameron (born 1948) U.S. poet, playwright, filmmaker, teacher, author, artist
- Perfect self-expression will never be labour; but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.
Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) U.S. metaphysical writer, teacher
Inspirational Quotes on Happiness: Unity
- All—yes, all are travellers, but how many journey together?
W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) U.S. photo-journalist for social justice
- How powerful it is to play with people who are on the same team with the same vision!
Alan Cohen (born 1950s) U.S. personal development/success teacher, author
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