Happiness Quotes

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

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

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Bertrand Russell

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Julie - Jeanne - Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Stuart Mill

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

Jane Austen

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

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

Eustace Budgell

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

John Howe

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.

Saint Augustine

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.

Cyrus Corteise

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

Joseph Addison

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat - Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, 1825

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

No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

Charlotte Bronte

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Alfred Adle

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

Dale Carnegie

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

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

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Pete

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.

Thomas Jefferson