Here we have the best Happiness Quotes from famous authors such as Daniel Kahneman, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Helen McCrory, Dale Carnegie, Orison Swett Marden. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
I’m a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it’s the ability to give.
The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I’m interested in happiness.
Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don’t think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.
Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It’s such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
I always say: ‘Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,’ but some things make me question it. I don’t know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that’s really scary.
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
I think life is difficult and that’s that. I am not at all – absolutely not at all – interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.
Everyone needs resilience. It’s a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Happiness is very simple and minimal.
I think I’ve been able to find happiness, and I’ve learned to love myself. That’s a huge accomplishment for anyone, learning to love yourself.
How could anybody possibly have a problem with two people falling in love and finding happiness together?
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That’s a wealth that’s priceless. You can’t buy compassion.
The will of man is his happiness.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love… if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
I’m living the life of liberty, happiness and pursuit.
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you’re not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I’ve learned, that’s the path to happiness.
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I’m totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.
God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
I don’t desire happiness. I think it’s a myth, and I don’t think it’s… and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
It’s part of life to have obstacles. It’s about overcoming obstacles; that’s the key to happiness.
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
For me, the opposite of happiness isn’t sadness but boredom.
I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Understanding your employee‘s perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.
I’m an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
I’m not a showoff. My happiness comes from very basic and simple things.
Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?
Eros is not tranquil – it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It’s the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression ‘falling in love’ since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.
Happiness, the feeling of positivity, really is the foundation of productivity.
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
When top scientists and psychologists talk about what’s important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Through a long and painful process, I’ve learned that happiness is an inside job – not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I’ve become a different and better person – not perfect, but still a work in progress.
Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
I’ve heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
You can undo a lot of things. If you’re not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That’s the thing I really feel.
People don’t understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don’t necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
I am possessive and protective of my babies. Their happiness means more to me than anything else on this world. I love them more than I would ever have thought was possible.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.
The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.
So, my happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
It’s no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
I’ll never forget the blooming happiness that spread in me like the sun coming up when Lydia’s obstetrician poked me awake: ‘Congratulations… you have a fine son.’
Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don’t love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can’t give anything else but that.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn’t mean just a small happiness. It’s huge. It is profound.
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
A good education is another name for happiness.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that’s going to bring you happiness. That’s what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That’s a fallacy.
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word – it’s happiness. People do not distinguish.
Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that’s not really what happiness is.
I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.
To me, flowers are happiness.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.
Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.
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.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It’s an active process.
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Just stop for a minute and you’ll realize you’re happy just being. I think it’s the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it’s right here.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
I suffer a lot with mental health and stuff, so I had to find something that was going to make me OK with who I was and also give me some peace and happiness with being alive. So yeah, I’ve worked hard on myself.
We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man‘s eyes.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
My aim in life isn’t so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
