1,043 Quotes Regarding Happiness


Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Napoleon Hill

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
Paulo Coelho

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
Charlie Chaplin

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
Chanakya

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale Carnegie

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo