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Free quotes about happiness and motivation

Today we share with you these free quotes about happiness and motivation so you can take advantage of them any way you want.

Thoughts are excellent self-help resources. Many invite us to reflect, others help us to get in touch with our motivation and others simply make us smile.

Some of our free quotes are ready to share wherever you like. Those who do not have images in this post can find them on our Pinterest (simple motivational quotes).

#1

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.  William James

William James – The Varieties of Religious Experience

#2

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.  Lou Holtz

Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success

#3

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

#4

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

#5

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

The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay The Gospel of Wealth (Dover Thrift Editions)

#6

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.  Margaret Lee Runbeck

#7

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.   Maya Angelou

Letter to My Daughter

#8

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.  Oprah Winfrey

#9

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.  Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

#10

Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!   Tony Robbins

#11

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.   Brene Brown

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

#12

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.    John Wooden

#13

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.   J.K. Rowling

The Casual Vacancy

#14

 The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.   Oprah Winfrey

#15

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.  Leo Buscaglia

Living Loving and Learning

#16

You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.   Louise Hay

#17

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.   Wayne Dyer

#18

Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it’s the realization that we can.   Shawn Achor

Ripple’s Effect by Shawn Achor (2012-10-23)

#19

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.   Tal Ben-Shahar

Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment

#20

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.  Tony Robbins

#21

May your day be today. Take it for you. That everything you do is to feel good: forbidden to suffer for stupidity.   Walter Riso

How to Improve Your Self-Esteem (Practical Guide Book 3)

#22

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.   Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.   J.K. Rowling

Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

#24

I’m choosing happiness over suffering I know I am.  I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.   Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Love and Pray

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

#25

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.    Jack Canfield

Success Affirmations: 52 Weeks for Living a Passionate and Purposeful Life

#26

Things do not necessarily happen for the best, but I can choose to make the best of things that happen.   Tal Ben-Shahar

Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness

#27

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.   Wayne Dyer

 

#28

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.    Louise Hay

#29

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.   Leo Buscaglia

Love: What Life Is All About

#30

The only problem we really have is we think we’re not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- – face & solve them now!   Tony Robbins

#31

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness–it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.   Brene Brown

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

#32

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.   Oprah Winfrey

#33

For me, happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.   Shawn Achor
Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being

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