1,043 Quotes Regarding Happiness


My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.
Diana Ross

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

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
Dave Grohl

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.
Nicki Minaj

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
Nicki Minaj

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

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
James Hillman

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.
Suge Knight

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
Andrew Weil

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
Eddie Albert

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
Taylor Caldwell

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
Ric Ocasek

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
Azar Nafisi

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
Vanessa Paradis

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
Tom Ford

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
Polly Toynbee

Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
Harry Browne

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Arthur Helps

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
Alexander Payne