Happiness - Quotes & Sayings

The mission of my company is to bring three things to the world through entertainment: joy, happiness, and change. We must believe our precious time is being used to make a product worth more than anything else we could be doing.

Charlie Ebersol

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

Adam Weishaupt

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Winifred Holtby

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

As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everything's messed up. It's a woman's world for sure.

BJ the Chicago Kid

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

Ezra Taft Benson

Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

Orison Swett Marden

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Zhuangzi

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

Billy Graham

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Michael J. Fox

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Chanakya

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

Adrian Grenier

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

Joseph Addison

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

Dalai Lama

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

George Washington

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Khalil Gibran

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

John Lubbock

The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and innocence and then at night, darker, stranger mob conspiracy stuff sort of comes out. It seems like a storytelling engine. You can just keep writing about how those two worlds smash into each other.

Mitch Glazer

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

Frank McCourt

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Swami Sivananda

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Carrie Underwood

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Hugh Walpole

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Bertrand Russell

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

Taraji P. Henson

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Jose Marti

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Ben Jonson

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

Andrew Weil

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Hannah Arendt

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Walters

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Hermann Hesse

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

Thomas S. Monson

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

I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

Iggy Azalea

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Peter Drucker

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Albert Camus

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk