Happiness Quotes

Happiness is a byproduct of pursuits that give our life purpose.

Happiness is different form pleasure. It has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

George Sheehan

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeates

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The happiest person is the one who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

Our happiness comes not from what is around us, but from what is within us; not from what we have, but from what we are.

Ellen G White

Happiness is self-contentedness.

Aristotle

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Charles M Schulz

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

If you think sunshine brings you happiness, then you haven’t danced in the rain.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Sydney J Harris

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

Margaret Bonnano

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.

Dale Carnegie

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K Chalmers

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus

Happiness is a place between too little and too much.

Finnish Proverb

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Jim Rohn

One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness – simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream.

George Sand

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.

Francesca Reigler

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

Job 5:17

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D Roosevelt

To fill the hour - that is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is an achievement brought about by inner productiveness.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D Roosevelt

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

Gandhi

Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second -and best -in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night’s sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.

Theodor Fontane

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Mildred Barthel

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J Donald Walters

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Peyton Conway March

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

John Lubbock

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Aeschylus

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

Ellen G White

Happy is the man that feareth alway.

Proverbs 28:14

All happy people are grateful.

There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All heaven is interested in the happiness of man. Our heavenly Father does not close the avenues of joy to any of His creatures.

Ellen G White

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Dalai Lama

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Psalms 128:2

The happiest place on earth for us is the place where God would have us be.

Ellen G White

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Pearl S Buck

Happiness comes through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Proverbs 29:18

In many ways, life’s happiness is bound up with faithfulness in common duties.

Ellen G White

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

J R Mill

The more effort we bring to the pursuit of personal happiness, the less likely we are to attain it: true contentment lies in the embrace of some purpose beyond the self.

If ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye.

1 Peter 3:14

Happiness requires nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while misery is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance; the wise person grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

For dealing with the blessings which come to us from outside we need a firm foundation based on reason and education; without this foundation, people keep on seeking these blessings and heaping them up but can never satisfy the insatiable appetites of their souls.

Plutarch

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.

W Beran Wolfe

He that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

Proverbs 14:21

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.

Eric Hoffer

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

Behold, we count them happy which endure.

James 5:11

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Bob Hope

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -because we will always want to have something else or something more.

Brother David Steindl-Rast

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

Aristotle

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

Helen Keller

I finally let go of what I thought would make me happy – and swapped it for what was actually making me happy, in real life, already.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

Proverbs 3:13

Men can only be happy when they assume that the object of life is happiness.

George Orwell

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.

John Barrymore

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.

Walt Whitman

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savour it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

Gretchen Rubin

Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.

Proverbs 16:20

Happiness is not achieved by the constant pursuit of happiness, it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making nests in your hair

Chinese Proverb

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

Thoreau

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

W B Yeats

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

John Gunther

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.

Psalms 146:5

Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius

Make people happier by acknowledging that they’re not feeling happy.

I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

Thoreau

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

Chinese Proverb

Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.

Psalms 144:15

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Sydney J Harris

Do more of what makes you happy.

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

John Milton

It is not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy.

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Mark Twain