Happiness Quotes

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Madeline Stark

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

Norm Papernick

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

We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.

Thomas Jefferson

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Herman Cain

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

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Maxwell Maltz

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Lord Essex

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

When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us.

Helen Kelle

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

Washington Irving, American writer and poet

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

George Sand

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

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

Benjamin Disraeli

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Gabrid Garcia Marquez

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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

Helen Kelle

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

H. L. Mencken

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Anais Nin

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

Victor Hugo

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Alexander Pope

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.

Woodrow Wilson

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Dimnet

When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.

Shakti Gawain

I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.

Alexander Humboldt

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2

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

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

Saint Augustine

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

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

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

George Burns