99 Quotes For Happiness

1.  Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. Princess Diana
2. True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. John W. Gardner
3. Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy. Carlo Collodi
4. 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. Plato
5. Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object. Hermann Hesse
6. If you know your true worth, you do not need anyone else to confirm it. Alan Cohen
7. 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. Aldous Huxley
8. Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father. Barry Sanders
9. I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful. Christina Milian
10. Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
11. When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. Debra Messing
12. 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. Gregg Easterbrook
13. People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal. Jon Huntsman, Jr.
14. Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
15. Happiness? No, it's not there for me. Robert Mapplethorpe
16. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen
17. The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Nathaniel Hawthorne
18. Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. Bertrand Russell
19. Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. Vittorio Alfieri
20. I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting. Chris Evans
21. Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. Kevyn Aucoin
22. Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. William E. Gladstone
23. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
24. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway
25. You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness. Percy Ross
26. 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness. Cab Calloway
27. The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. Thucydides
28. When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. Thornton Wilder
29. I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. Kanye West
30. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt
31. The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy. J. Donald Walters
32. Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. Plutarch
33. Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. Benjamin Spock
34. Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. John Dryden
35. The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. Jeremy Bentham
36. Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. Maurice Sendak
37. It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. Hugo Black
38. I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire. Vanessa Paradis
39. Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. Irving Babbitt
40. I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. Paula Cole
41. Money can't buy happiness. Howard Hughes
42. Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life. Hugh Walpole
43. The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. Jacques Yves Cousteau
44. But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. William Shakespeare
45. The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others. Arthur C. Brooks
46. Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive. Doug Coupland
47. Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. J. Donald Walters
48. To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
49. Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. Ogden Nash
50. Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? Jonathan Safran Foer
51. The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness. Rob Brydon
52. Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. Bill Vaughan
53. How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made? Dan Savage
54. One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day. Sean Hannity
55. True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. William J. H. Boetcker
56. I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness. Mary McCormack
57. All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza
58. 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. Thomas Traherne
59. I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy. Ursula K. Le Guin
60. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand
61. You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. Tracy Kidder
62. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand
63. What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. Leo Buscaglia
64. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton
65. To buy happiness is to sell soul. Douglas Horton
66. The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. V. S. Pritchett
67. It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us. Jonathan Mayhew
68. Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. Baruch Spinoza
69. Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant
70. The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. Malcolm Muggeridge
71. Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness. Ben Nicholson
72. It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. Thor Heyerdahl
73. Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller
74. My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. Diana Ross
75. I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland. Islom Karimov
76. Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. William Feather
77. 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. J. Donald Walters
78. Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. Mary MacLane
79. The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama
80. Love is trembling happiness. Khalil Gibran
81. Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. George A. Sheehan
82. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama
83. Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. Holbrook Jackson
84. Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
85. The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. George Eliot
86. Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. Nathaniel Hawthorne
87. I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. Michael J. Fox
88. No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. Graham Greene
89. Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles
90. When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. Sophocles
91. It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. Ashley Montagu
92. We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men. Francis Wright
93. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
94. Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. Langston Hughes
95. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. James Madison
96. Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. Daisaku Ikeda
97. This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people. Ai Weiwei
98. The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race. David Wilmot
99. I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. Giacomo Casanova