100 Best Feel-Good Quotes To Improve Your Mood

Supriya Jain
Dec 12, 2023 By Supriya Jain
Originally Published on Mar 02, 2021
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There can be a lot of negativity that is spread around all of us much of the time.

So, there is a need to spread positivity around people to keep themselves happy. There are many ways in which one can stay comfortable and content.

“Success is not final, and failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” This quote from Winston Churchill can help if you positively in difficult and negative situations. There are times when you feel low and don’t understand what to do in such cases.

That is the time when you need to be more positive and face the situation. Here are some of the best feel good quotes that will inspire you to do better.

People usually feel upset or negative whenever they face a crisis in their life that they might have never encountered before, that might be related to personal or professional life.

The situations have a terrible impact on our lives, and we need some motivation and positive energy to do better. That is the time when encouragement and positivity is needed in life.

You need to spread positive vibes around people and make them feel happy and positive. Here are some of the best quotes that will make you feel good.

If you like these feel better quotes, you may also like these good vibes quotes and feel better quotes.

Best Inspirational Quotes For Life Motivation And Power

Positivity is without a doubt an attractive personality trait and can go far when it comes to personal and professional relationships. Positivity is thinking optimistically.

When life gives you lemons, turn it into lemonade. Here are some of the best inspirational quotes and look good feel good quotes to help all people be inspired to seek God to practice compassion and love.

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1. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

- Helen Keller.

2. “The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”

- Tony Robbins.

3. “Great things never come from comfort zones.”

- Ben Francia.

4. “Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.”

- T. Scott McLeod.

5. “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”

- Susan Johanson.

6. “Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.”

- Marilyn Monroe.

7. “Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.”

- George Horace Lorimer.

8. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”

- Sean Patrick Flanery.

9. “It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.”

- Richard Cacuango.

10. “Don’t wait for an opportunity. Create it.”

- George Bernard Shaw.

11. “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.”

- Chandni Sharma.

12. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

- Zig Ziglar.

13. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

- Theodore Roosevelt.

14. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.”

- Carol Burnett.

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

- Jimmy Dean.

16. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

17. “No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.”

- Demi Lovato.

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

- Albert Einstein.

19. “Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”

- Alain De Botton.

20. “There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”

- Alain De Botton.

21. “Limit your ‘always’ and your ‘nevers.’”

- Amy Poehler.

22. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!”

- Audrey Hepburn.

23. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”

- Maya Angelou.

24. “You do not find a happy life. You make it.”

- Camilla Eyring Kimball.

25. “The way to change others’ minds is with affection, and not anger.”

- Dalai Lama.

26. “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”

- Dalai Lama.

27. “Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.”

- Dalai Lama.

28. “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. ...”

- Chuck Palahniuk.

29. “All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.”

- Chuck Palahniuk.

30. “Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.”

- Lindsey Vonn.

Best Feel Good Quotes

No matter how low you’re feeling, there will always be people who will constantly motivate you and help you to perform better. Feel good quotes and words from writers, stars, and authors like Carl Jung, Lao Tzu, Alan Cohen, Marcus Aurelius, and Denis Waitley will motivate you further.

Here are some of the best feel good quotes, positive quotes and good life quotes that will help you to feel good and motivated to pursue your goals and your happiness.

 

31. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

- Sydney J. Harris.

32. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

- Ayn Rand.

33. “The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”

- William Morris.

34. “Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.”

- Alen Cohen.

35. “Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.”

- Alen Cohen.

36. “Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.”

- Eileen Candy.

37. “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”

- William Saroyan.

38. “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”

- Carrie Jones.

39. “There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”

- Charlotte Bronte.

40. “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”

- Margaret Lee Runbeck.

41. “Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”

- Don Marquis.

42. “The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.”

- Doug Larson.

43. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that’s my religion.”

- Abraham Lincoln.

44. “Whatever you think you do well, do it. There is nothing better than feeling gratified.”

- Mike McManus.

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

- Douglas Jerrold.

46. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”

- Bernard M. Baruch.

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

- Andrew Carnegie.

48. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

- Anne Frank.

49. “Whoever is happy will make others happy.”

- Anne Frank.

50. “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

- Charlotte Bronte.

Famous Feel Good Quotes For Human Kind

There are times when we feel negative or don’t feel like doing anything, and that is when we need to understand the true meaning of the feel good quotes.

Here are some of the famous feel good quotes along with feel good Friday quotes and good short quotes that will help you to feel good and much better post reading.

51. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

52. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

- Nora Ephron.

53. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

- Helen Keller.

54. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.”

- Vince Lombardi.

55. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

- Nelson Mandela.

56. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

- Lyndon B. Johnson.

57. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

- Steve Jobs.

58. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.”

- Lucille Ball.

59. “One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.”

- Jane Fonda.

60. “Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”

- Marilyn Monroe.

61. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

- Mother Teresa.

62. “People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know.”

- Dany Laferriere.

63. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”

- George Sand.

64. “Happiness is distraction from human tragedy.”

- J.M. Reinoso.

65. “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

- Jane Austen.

66. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift; that’s why it’s called The Present.”

- Bil Keane.

67. “Take a deep breath. Inhale peace, exhale happiness.”

- A.D. Posey.

68. “The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.”

- John Green.

69. “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to swim.”

- Jon Kabat Zinn.

70. “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

- Eckhart Tolle.

71. “Be thankful for what you have and you will end up having more.”

- Oprah Winfrey.

72. “Shine like the whole universe is yours.”

- Rumi.

73. “Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.”

- Welwyn Wilton Katz.

74.“At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person.”

- Fred Rogers.

75. “You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes.”

- Lauren Oliver.

Best Happiness Quotes And Feel Good Quotes

Happiness is the state of mind characterized by feelings of joy, satisfaction, contentment, and fulfillment. No one else can know what makes you happy unless you share with others. Here are some of the best happiness quotes and feel good quotes.

76. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

77. “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.

78. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

- Marcel Proust.

79. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”

- Mark Twain.

80. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

- Jonathan Safran Foer.

81. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”

- Roy T. Bennett.

82. “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.

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

- Walt Disney.

84. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

- Anne Frank.

85. “Happiness is not a goal...it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt.

86. “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

- Mark Twain.

87. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

- Dr. Seuss.

88. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

- Aristotle.

89. “If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.”

- Mother Teresa.

90. “Being happy never goes out of style.”

- Lily Pulitzer.

91. “Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.”

- Carrie Underwood.

92. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

93. “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”

- Benjamin Franklin.

94. “Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”

- Roy T. Bennett.

95. “The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself.”

- Ellen DeGeneres.

96. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

- John Lennon.

97. “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”

- Dalai Lama.

98. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.”

- Audrey Hepburn.

99. “Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.”

- Christian Dior.

100. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

- Mahatma Gandhi.

Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for feel good quotes, then why not take a look at cheer up quotes, or [you can do it quotes].

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Written by Supriya Jain

Bachelor of Commerce, Master of Business Administration specializing in Marketing

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Supriya JainBachelor of Commerce, Master of Business Administration specializing in Marketing

As a skilled member of the Kidadl team, Shruti brings extensive experience and expertise in professional content writing. With a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Punjab University and an MBA in Business Administration from IMT Nagpur, Shruti has worked in diverse roles such as sales intern, content writer, executive trainee, and business development consultant. Her exceptional writing skills cover a wide range of areas, including SOP, SEO, B2B/B2C, and academic content.

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