Happiness Quotes

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

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.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

The day of individual happiness has passed.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

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.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

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