165 Mental Health Quotes for Happiness and Success

These mental health quotes will help you prioritize your feelings, emotions, and well-being.

Mental health refers to the state of our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.

It impacts the way we feel, think, and act, making it important in all areas of our lives.

Share with mental health quote that resonated the most with you in the comment section.

What are the benefits of reading these mental health quotes?

Mental health plays an important role in the way we deal with stress, how we relate to others, and the decisions we make in our daily lives.

Without positive mental health, it will be almost impossible to:

• realize your full potential
• be as productive as you can be at work
• contribute meaningfully to your community
• handle the stress that comes with life

So what can you do to ensure you have a healthy mental state?

Well, there are various ways to maintain positive mental health and live a more fulfilling and enjoyable life.

Besides seeking professional help if you need it, make time to connect with others, think positively about yourself, and get physically active.

Also, ensure you get enough rest, be mindful of your present moment, and be helpful to others.

A healthy mental state will help you leverage your Everyday Power to achieve the success you seek and live a purposeful life.

Here are some inspirational mental health quotes to remind you of that.

If you enjoy this article, check out our most popular quote article, a list of short inspirational quotes for daily motivation. 

If you want more motivational quotes, check out our motivational quotes category page.

Inspirational mental health quotes for happiness and success

1. “Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” – Adam Ant

You will also enjoy our article on happiness quotes

2. “It’s up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.”― Steve Maraboli

You will also enjoy our article on bloom quotes.

3. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore

You will also enjoy our article on healthcare quotes.

4. “Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” – Joubert Botha

You will also enjoy our article on mental health.

5. “This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.”― Cammie McGovern

6. “It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.”― Aisha Mirza

7. “What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” – Glenn Close

8. “It’s not just people who can’t find a job, or can’t fit in in society that struggle with depression sometimes.” — Jared Padalecki

9. “It doesn’t have to take over your life, it doesn’t have to define you as a person, it’s just important that you ask for help. It’s not a sign of weakness.” — Demi Lovato

10. “What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes.” ― Raymond L. Cramer

You might also like these bipolar quotes about living with this challenging mental illness.

Inspirational mental health quotes to help you on your journey

11. “There isn’t anybody out there who doesn’t have a mental health issue, whether it’s depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore – for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help.” – Howie Mandel

12. “I’ve run my whole life – for more than exercise, for mental health.” – Wendelin Van Draanen

You will also enjoy our article on Turtles All The Way Down quotes.

13. “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”— Charles Bukowski

If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of Charles Bukowski quotes to help you see life from a brand new perspective.

14. “Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There’s only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.” ― Tori Spelling

You will also enjoy our article on health quotes.

15. “The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

16. “You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.” ― Flannery O’Connor

17. “Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether.” – Stephanie Garber

18. “And every person can benefit from talking to somebody. I’m the most anti-medication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.” — Miley Cyrus

19. “My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” – Emery Lord

20. “The acknowledgment of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.” ― Stefan Molyneux

Insightful and inspirational mental health quotes

21. “Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.” –  Louise Hart

22. “Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.” — Pastor Rick Warren

23. “To think too much is a disease.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

24. “If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.” – Russell Wilson

25. “Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.” – Lemony Snicket

You might also enjoy these OCD Quotes.

26. “One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” –Linda Poindexter

27. “Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” – Noam Shpancer

28. “I didn’t talk to anyone about [postpartum depression]. I was very reluctant.. Four of my friends felt the same way I did, and everyone was too embarrassed to talk about it.” — Adele (See more postpartum depression quotes)

29. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

30. “It was too heavy a burden to carry and I simply couldn’t do that anymore. I sought and received treatment, I put positive people around me and I got back to doing what I love – writing songs and making music.” – Mariah Carey

Mental health quotes to remind you to take care of your mind

31. “Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.” – Diane Abbott

32. “Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.” – Pete Earley

33. “PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.”― Susan Pease Banitt

34. “Don’t let your struggle become your identity.” – Unknown

35. “Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.”― Nathaniel Branden

36. “..balancing time you spend with or without people is crucial for mental health.” ― Amy E. Spiegel

37. “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” – Carl Jung

38. “I’m actually taking medication that seems to be pretty good. It’s not making me feel too tired or sluggish or anything like that. Finding the proper balance is what is most important,” – Mariah Carey

39. “I’m struggling just to get through the days. I think a lot of people are.” — Justin Bieber

40. “About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.” – C.G. Jung

Don’t forget to also read these insightful insanity quotes that will help you stay sane in the chaos that’s life.

Mental health quotes to make you strong

41. “A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.” –  Kate Middleton

42. “The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”― Juliette Lewis

43. “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Amy March

44. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”― John Green

45. “Part of my identity is saying no to things I don’t want to do… I check in with myself throughout the day and I say, ‘Do I really want to do this?’ and if the answer is no, then I don’t do it. And you shouldn’t either.” — Lady Gaga

46. “I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.” ― Jonathan Harnisch

47. “Hope, hope, hope. It has to be there. Rob the person of hope, and there won’t be any recovery.” – Dan Fisher

48. “There’s not shame in dealing with these things. There’s no shame in having to fight everyday.” — Jared Padalecki

49. “If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.” – Martin H. Fischer

50. “I let it get to me that day. I wasn’t in a good place. And unfortunately I was going through a rough time and I let it get to me a little bit too much. That was it.” – Liam Payne

Also check out these wellness quotes and sayings that can help you achieve a better life.

Inspirational mental health quotes

51. “Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know.”― Matt Haig

52. “It can be a good thing, too, to learn to sit in your own weirdness.”― Sarah Wilson

53. “When anxiety is in balance, it helps us to think ahead to the future, make plans, and get organized.”― Jessica Moore

54. “Mental health is an important topic, and should be discussed more frequently. It’s not “attention seeking.”― Brien Blatt

55. “Mental health sufferers are not crazy. They have special insight. You better recognize that setting aside your interest people to stay asleep and show empathy towards God’s imperfect creations, otherwise the world has no meaning to exist.”― Maria Karvouni

56. “Is stress inflicted on you — or created by you?”― Frank Sonnenberg
If you’re enjoying these quotes, read our collection of stress quotes that will teach you tips to better manage yours.

57. “Depression… is what your suffering actually yours?”― Susanna Mittermaier

58. “There is a point where courage becomes a symptom of mental illness.”― Wayne Gerard Trotman

59. “Through the vehicle of our emotions, our mind, body, and spirit are sending signals that something has to shift.”― Randy Taran

60. “It’s okay to not be okay – it means that your mind is trying to heal itself.”― Abhijit Naskar

61. “True suffering is being trapped in your own head.”― Adam Snowflake

62. “Those who suffer from depression would know that all the things that might seem nonsensical are eventually real.”― Dwimirnani

63. “The only people who have room to worry about the future are those who aren’t fighting just to survive the present.”― Kerry Kletter

If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of worry quotes to help you calm your fears.

64. “I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open.”― Matt Haig

65. “The quickest way to end up feeling anger all the time is to repress it and fight against it.”― Jessica Moore

Mental health quotes to give you hope

66. “Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, YOU ARE NOT THE RAIN.” — Matt Haig

67. “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.”― Matt Haig

68. “If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.” — Selena Gomez

69. “They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.”― Nathaniel Lee

70. “We are not our trauma. We are not our brain chemistry. That’s part of who we are, but we’re so much more than that.” ― Sam J. Miller

71. “Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.” ―Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

72. “Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” — Astrid Alauda

73. “There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.” ―Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

74. “The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire.” — Mama Indigo

75. “I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s there to be ashamed of? I went through a really tough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.” —J. K. Rowling

Don’t forget to check out these self-harm quotes and sayings to help move you to a calm moment.

Mental health quotes to enlighten you

76. “Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” – Bill Clinton

77. “You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering.” — Ernest Hemingway

78. “Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” – Dale Carnegie

79. “Everyone experiences a version of anxiety or worry in their lives, and maybe we go through it in a different or more intense way for longer periods of time, but there’s nothing wrong with you.” – Emma Stone

80. “You are stronger than you know. In the depths of despair, you find your true strength within.” – Asad Meah

81. “We take care of our dental health. We don’t take care of our mental health … I think the solution to making this world better is if we would just be healthy mentally.” —Howie Mandel

82. “Do not just slay your demons; dissect them and find what they’ve been feeding on.” – Anonymous

83. “I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better — and maybe not all that much better after all.” —Stephen King

84. “You will emerge from this nightmare like the powerful, beautiful, resilient person that you are. It can be hard to remember this when you feel like a shell of the person you once were. But trust me: You are capable of overcoming so much more than you think.” – Elite Daily

85. “No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that all the time about people with mental illness.” —Elyn R. Saks

You might also benefit from reading these Borderline Personality Quotes.

More mental health quotes and sayings

86. “Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay

87. “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” — Ovid

88. “The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not.” ― Elyn R. Saks

89. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ― Henry David Thoreau

90. “Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that the better for us all.” — Erik Erikson

91. “Mental health is something that we all need to talk about, and we need to take the stigma away from it. So let’s raise awareness. Let’s let everybody know it’s OK to have a mental illness and addiction problem.” — Demi Lovato

92. “My dark days made me stronger. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” — Emery Lord

93. “Being vulnerable is actually a strength and not a weakness — that’s why more and more mental health is such an important thing to talk about. It’s the same as being physically sick. And when you keep all those things inside, when you bottle them up, it makes you ill.” — Cara Delevingne

94. “But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.” ― Robert Uttaro

95. “Anyone can be affected, despite their level of success or their place on the food chain. In fact, there is a good chance you know someone who is struggling with it since nearly 20% of American adults face some form of mental illness in their lifetime. So why aren’t we talking about it?” — Kristen Bell

Mental health quotes to keep you in a good headspace

96. “You don’t need to find a lesson in your trauma.” — Jordan Pickell, MCP RCC

97. “Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health.” —  Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

98. “‘Positive vibes only’ isn’t a thing. Humans have a wide range of emotions and that’s OK.” — Molly Bahr, LMHC

99. “In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” — Abraham Maslow

100. “Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone.” — Lisa Olivera

101. “Take a deep breath to remember you are the child who lived through survival mode and the empowered adult who chose their healing.” — Dr. Nicole LePera

102. “The experience I have had is that once you start talking about [experiencing a mental health struggle], you realize that actually you’re part of quite a big club.” — Prince Harry

103. “What I love about therapy is that they’ll tell you what your blind spots are. Although that’s uncomfortable and painful, it gives you something to work with.” — Pink

104. “I found that with depression, one of the most important things you can realize is that you’re not alone. You’re not the first to go through it, you’re not gonna be the last to go through it.” — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

105. “I understand your pain. Trust me, I do. I’ve seen people go from the darkest moments in their lives to living a happy, fulfilling life. You can do it too. I believe in you. You are not a burden. You will NEVER BE a burden.” — Sophie Turner

Mental health quotes to inspire you to keep moving forward

106. “you look at me and cry

everything hurts

i hold you and whisper

but everything can heal”

― Rupi Kaur

107. “It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.”  – Amy Poehler 

108. “Some seek the comfort of their therapist’s office, others head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.”  – Dean Karnazes

109. “You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.”  – Laura Davis 

110. “You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too.”  – Matt Haig

111. “At our lowest we find the solid ground of our foundation. And we can build ourselves anew.”  – Matt Haig

112. “If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay.”  – Stephen Levine

113. “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.  None but ourselves can free our minds”   – Bob Marley

114. “It’s about the determination to keep walking forward.”  – Matt Haig

115. “Recovery is full of ups and downs.

There is no such thing as a linear life.

But you can always turn your setbacks into setups to come back stronger.”

― Brittany Burgunder

Thought-provoking mental health quotes

116. “Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.” ― Jasmine Warga

117. “Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?” ― T.J. Klune

118. “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.” ― Matt Haig

119. “The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.” ― Tiffany Madison

120. “It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative–which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.” ― Sylvia Plath

121. “I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.” ― John Green

122. “I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”
― Samantha Shannon

123. “I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.” ― Rosamund Lupton

124. “Don’t take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

125. “What people never understand is that depression isn’t about the outside; it’s about the inside.” ― Jasmine Warga

Mental Health Quotes To Help Relate With People Around You

126. “There is a major emphasis on positive versus negative thoughts in dealing with harmful stress and mental health in general. Realistic thoughts should perhaps be the goal.” ― Dr Harry Barry

127. “The mind can be like a small child who just needs reassurance that things will be dealt with and looked after. That’s all it needs to let go of these mental worries.” ― Barry McDonagh

128. “Your own mental health battles or those of others can make you lose sight of it, but hope is truly the one thing that will keep you going through some of the harder times.” ― Frankie Bridge

129. “Mental health is “messy and chaotic” but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep trying to make sense of it.” ― Nathan Filer

130. “Regardless of where you are on the mental health spectrum, it is important to remember that, if you have a problem, with the right support and treatment you can and will get better.” ― Shaun Davies And Andrew Kinder

131. “We would probably also feel less ashamed or afraid to talk about mental health issues if we knew more certainly where they came from, or what caused them.” ― Edward Bullmore

132. “Running with a partner, or a friend, or just meeting people out and about can be a balm to the isolation that mental-health problems create.” ― Bella Mackie

133. “Experts believe that a reduction of mental and physical stress can help people focus and organize their thoughts in an efficient manner. In this, yoga excels.” ― Susan Hollister

134. “We now know that close friendships and affectionate relationships play a huge role in our mental health and well-being and influence how our bodies work.” ― Paul Gilbert

135. “Mental space is just another way of saying “available energy.” If you are fully charged, you’re more patient, willing, agile, cooperative, and available to change your mind and approach as the situation requires.” ― Rajshree Patel

Mental Health Quotes To Help You Settle Your Thoughts

136. “Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.” — Mariel Hemingway

137. “The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

138. “Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.” — Alain de Botton

139. “If I never had any mental health issues, there’s no doubt in my mind I’d still be playing.” — Mardy Fish

140. “There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.” — George Vandeman

141. “The feeling of being valuable – ‘I am a valuable person’- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.” — M. Scott Peck

142. “Sometimes it’s dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream.” — Demi Lovato

143. “Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.” — Camille Paglia

144. “I’m a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.” — Alan Thicke

145. “Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.” — Karl A. Menninger

Mental Health Quotes To Stir Your Awareness

146. “Your mental health is everything – prioritize it. Make the time like your life depends on it, because it does.” — Mel Robbins

147. “Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little issue you can put into a box.” — Shannon Purser

148. “There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business.” — Vikram Patel

149. “We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.” — Luke Richardson

150. “Mental health can be just as important as physical health – and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.” — Michael Greger

151. “Loving thoughts and actions are clearly beneficial for our physical and mental health.” — Dalai Lama

152. “Start prioritizing your mental health instead of adjusting to toxic spaces.” — Thema Bryant-Davis

153. “Mental health isn’t all of me, but it’s a massive part of my journey and a massive part of my whole being.” — Adwoa Aboah

154. “Mental health isn’t always about feeling good. As I define it, mental health is about accepting reality on reality’s terms.” ― Drew Pinsky

155. “It’s important to point out that mental health is more about wellness rather than sickness.” — Matt Purcell

Mental Health Quotes on Mental Attitude and Wellness

156. “A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.” ― Robert Foster Bennett

157. “The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.” ― Bessel van der Kolk

158. “A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.” ― Patricia Neal

159. “Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.” ― Bo Bennett

160. “I practice yoga nidra to support my mental health and clear my mind space.” ― Emily Carpenter

161. “I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.” ― David Alan Grier

162. “Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.” ― Gail Porter

163. “There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling – absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.” ― Dan Barker

164. “I’m not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body.” ― Demi Lovato

165. “I’m convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.” ― David Satcher

How did you like these mental health quotes?

Mental health is vital in all stages of life.

For you to realize your full potential, achieve success, and live a more fulfilling life, you need to have a healthy mental state.

While taking care of your mental health might mean getting professional support, you should also make the right changes in your life.

Hopefully, these quotes have inspired you to always maintain positive mental health for success and happiness.

Did you enjoy these mental health quotes?

Which of the quotes was your favorite?

We would love to hear all about it in the comment section below.

If you found this article helpful, then please share it on social media!