Happiness Quotes

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

Diogenes Laertius, Zeno

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838

Happiness is a way of praying.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

John Dewey

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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 opened for us.

Hellen Kelle

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman MacEwan

Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porte

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Benjamin Franklin

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Maurice Masterlinck

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Dr. Smiley Blanton

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ayn Rand

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

J. Petit - Senn

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

Author Unknown

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

William Lyon Phelps

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles Caleb Colton

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.

George Burns

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Donald Robert Perry Marquis

If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.

The Dhammapada

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Maurice Chevalie

Where ambition ends happiness begins.

Author Unknown

To fill the hour - That is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Eykis

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Kelle

I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison