100 Quotes To Inspire Happiness

• The secret of happiness is something to do. John Burroughs
• But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved. Lafcadio Hearn
• It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one’s earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. Ashley Montagu
• You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness. Philip Kaufman
• People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. Lucinda Williams
• To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind – this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for. Henry Van Dyke
• When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. Nicole Kidman
• 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 is having a scratch for every itch. Ogden Nash
• Happiness isn’t something you experience it’s something you remember. Oscar Levant
• No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft
• I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers. Alfred Day Hershey
• The right to happiness is fundamental. Anna Pavlova
• The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. Harry Harrison
• I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering. Norodom Sihamoni
• Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. Dale Carnegie
• I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Victoria Woodhull
• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust
• Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on. Carrie Underwood
• The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage. Thucydides
• There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man – that is, the more divine – the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. Miguel de Unamuno
• True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. Joseph Addison
• Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. Kevyn Aucoin
• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris
• I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. Edward Gibbon
• My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as ‘an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.’ Kitty Kelley
• This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can’t be happy as a success, it’s very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. Michael Korda
• Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. Joseph Butler
• But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don’t have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they’re a movie star. Victoria Jackson
• It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one’s uses. Sarah Orne Jewett
• He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. Olympia Brown
• And perfect happiness? Man, that’s a… the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm. Jamie Foxx
• Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market – I have so many vintage pieces from there it’s unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. Kaya Scodelario
• Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. Adam Clarke
• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important. Daniel Kahneman
• Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Alphonse de Lamartine
• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. Nathaniel Hawthorne
• I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard
• Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. William Cobbett
• Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. Marquis de Sade
• I’m actually tougher on myself as I get older. It’s a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can’t buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that. Criss Angel
• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Red Skelton
• Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. Plato
• Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. Clare Boothe Luce
• I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia. Peter MacKay
• No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another’s happiness. Graham Greene
• Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
• There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. Ogden Nash
• Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Victor Hugo
• Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. William James
• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. Andre Maurois
• Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. Rachel Field
• I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change. Jamie Lee Curtis
• My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Green Ingersoll
• I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. William Weld
• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo
• 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. Robert Wyatt
• You can be happy where you are. Joel Osteen
• There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand
• The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. Heinrich Mann
• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. K. D. Lang
• If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied. George Westinghouse
• If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. Samuel Johnson
• Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime! Lawrence G. Lovasik
• Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy. Carlo Collodi
• The will of man is his happiness. Friedrich Schiller
• Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know. Richard Ford
• Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. Hosea Ballou
• Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others. Bar Refaeli
• To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. Victor Hugo
• Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. Arthur Schopenhauer
• To me, flowers are happiness. Stefano Gabbana
• Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. Michael Novak
• I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny. Daniel Johns
• The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies. Walter Annenberg
• Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. Andy Grammer
• For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind. Alice Meynell
• It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business. Dolley Madison
• Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important. Antonio Gala
• Happiness lies first of all in health. George William Curtis
• 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. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
• Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling
• The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live. Sidney Sheldon
• I don’t have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire. Vanessa Paradis
• Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. John Barrymore
• There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. Jose Marti
• So long as you don’t feel life’s paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn’t matter, happiness or unhappiness. David Herbert Lawrence
• My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they – any parent hopes for their child. Emmylou Harris
• To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
• The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race. David Wilmot
• True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents. John W. Gardner
• What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money. Henny Youngman
• I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is. Alanis Morissette
• Happiness: a way station between too little and too much. Channing Pollock
• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. Irving Babbitt
• Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Ayn Rand