1,043 Quotes Regarding Happiness


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

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.
Helen Keller

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Khalil Gibran

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
John W. Gardner

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller

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

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.
Eleanor Roosevelt

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Billy Graham

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin