Happiness Quotes

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Alexander Pope

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

Lucy Alibar

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

Johann von Goethe

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Anyone believing in Cosmic Ordering wants for nothing.

Stephen Richards

Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.

Steve Maraboli

You would not be here TODAY if YESTERDAY was your defining moment. LIVE THIS DAY and move towards your dreams.

Steve Maraboli

Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

Samuel Johnson

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Theodor Adorno

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

Valerie Bertinelli

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

Thomas Hood

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

Godfrey Reggio

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

Evita Peron

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

George Bernard Shaw

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Jean-Paul Marat

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herbert Spencer

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Robert Herrick