Happiness Quotes

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

Euripides

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

Shelley

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

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

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Agnes Repplie

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by - Product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley, Vendeta for the Western World, 1945

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

Samuel Johnson

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus

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

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Joseph Addison

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

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

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

C. C. Colton

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Langbridge Morgan

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

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

Confucius, Analects

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Albert Camus

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

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

George Sand

The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The secret of happiness is something to do.

John Burroughs

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

George Sand

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Louis D. Brandeis

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

Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.

Sidney Madwed