99 Quotes For Happiness

1.  Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. James K. Polk
2. There is no happiness outside of ourselves. Bryant McGill
3. Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. Henry Ford
4. Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. Bill Vaughan
5. Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower. John Harrigan
6. It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it. Simon Travaglia
7. See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. James Freeman Clarke
8. Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence. Maurice Maeterlinck
9. 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. Alanis Morissette
10. I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
11. The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer
12. Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified. Polly Toynbee
13. A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. Soren Kierkegaard
14. Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time. John Leguizamo
15. A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. Mary Wortley
16. Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. Wayne Gretzky
17. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell
18. Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy. Jermaine Jackson
19. 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
20. He who avoids complaint invites happiness. Abu Bakr
21. By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
22. 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
23. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. John Barrymore
24. Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. Alphonse Karr
25. I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness. Ric Ocasek
26. Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. P. J. O'Rourke
27. The happiness of society is the end of government. John Adams
28. Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you. Aron Ralston
29. It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect. Daniel Keys Moran
30. Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. Bernard Meltzer
31. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand
32. False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. Charles de Montesquieu
33. I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America. Youssou N'Dour
34. That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. James Thomson
35. I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. Nicki Minaj
36. It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. Dalai Lama
37. Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. Arthur Helps
38. Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge. Polly Toynbee
39. I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful. Christina Milian
40. Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received. Alexander Payne
41. The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. Martha Washington
42. Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. Laurence Sterne
43. Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus
44. Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. Albert Camus
45. There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford
46. We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed. Park Geun-hye
47. True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. John W. Gardner
48. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand
49. Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. Gilbert K. Chesterton
50. It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard
51. Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet. Glen Hansard
52. We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does. Mary Gordon
53. 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. Sigmund Freud
54. Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. William Feather
55. I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour. Richard Eyre
56. You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness. Percy Ross
57. Where fear is, happiness is not. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
58. The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
59. My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.' Kitty Kelley
60. Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. Theodor Adorno
61. My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Green Ingersoll
62. 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
63. Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. Sarah McLachlan
64. Happiness is a direction, not a place. Sydney J. Harris
65. Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
66. Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. Maurice Maeterlinck
67. Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. Bertolt Brecht
68. Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. Frank McCourt
69. The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. Bertrand Russell
70. If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy
71. Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! William Hazlitt
72. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy? Albert Einstein
73. No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it. Glenn Beck
74. To me, the most important thing is happiness. Sheryl Swoopes
75. Happiness: a way station between too little and too much. Channing Pollock
76. Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Pearl S. Buck
77. 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
78. Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. Dionne Warwick
79. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo
80. How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. William Ellery Channing
81. Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness. Godfrey Reggio
82. Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. Louis D. Brandeis
83. Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be. Dennis Prager
84. A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. Josh Billings
85. If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied. George Westinghouse
86. 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. Max Planck
87. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. Aldous Huxley
88. My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. Clara Schumann
89. A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. George Eliot
90. I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming. Linda Evans
91. The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. Paramahansa Yogananda
92. Happiness is making your dreams come true. Jourdan Dunn
93. Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles
94. As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. Anthony Trollope
95. The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness. Charles Van Doren
96. Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. Thomas Jefferson
97. There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Henry Drummond
98. Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. Julia Roberts
99. The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama