Happiness - Quotes & Sayings
Respect your partner. Be happy in your partner's happiness.
Divyanka TripathiMost folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham LincolnIt 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 LamaI'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.
Helen McCroryDerive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri MatisseNo one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen KellerLife 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.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
Daniel GilbertMaking money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
Muhammad YunusMy faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
Denzel WashingtonThe great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Thomas HuxleyThe 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.
PlatoYou 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 KidderMoney 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.
Benjamin FranklinHe who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel JohnsonMusic should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
Peabo BrysonI am not very fond of spotlight or even, for that matter, money. I appreciate the small things that give me joy. The most precious forms of happiness often come from things that money cannot buy.
Nithya MenenThe said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy BenthamWhen ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas MertonLife in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George SandThe secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand RussellHappiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Henry DrummondScience 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.
Kim Jong-unIt is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Denis WaitleyHappiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.
Ellen PompeoFor me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.
Sushant Singh RajputThe necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.
Mustafa Kemal AtaturkMy happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
Nicki MinajLife is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.
Mel GibsonIn the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.
Tsai Ing-wenThere is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry FordHappiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris MurdochCompleteness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
Anita BakerWe believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
Paul RyanWe must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
EpicurusI find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.
Charles M. SchwabHappiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny CarsonHappiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. HarrisFew and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.
Michael A. StackpoleOur daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
Shawn AchorGetting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
Nick CaveSome cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar WildeA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph AddisonThe happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves CousteauI don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.
Queen LatifahI am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha WashingtonThe happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
ChanakyaMarriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God's great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!
Russell M. NelsonBeing happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh YogiThe only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.
Eliza Doolittle