Happiness Quotes

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Masterlinck
Roosevelt, eleano - happiness is not a goal it is a by - product....
Thomas jefferson - i have never been able to conceive how any...
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
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
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.
Maitri Upanishads
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
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
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
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, Antigone
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.
Washington Irving, American writer and poet
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Ben Franklin
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Seneca
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
Albert Einstein
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
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Jane Austen
Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.
Wayne Dye
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
Thucydides
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Norman MacEwan
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
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 which has opened for us.
Helen Kelle
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
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
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
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? s the use of happiness? It can? t buy you money.
Henny Youngman
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
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson