Happiness Quotes

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

William Beveridge

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Paulo Coelho

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

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

Clayton Christensen

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?

Richard Owen Cambridge

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Richard Whately

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Jimmy Carter

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

Rosalia de Castro

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

George A. Sheehan

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Ben Jonson

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Carrie Underwood

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

Connie Nielsen

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Frederick Delius

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Cosmic Ordering is your one way ticket to prosperity.

Stephen Richards

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

Bertrand Russell

The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.

Steve Maraboli

Those who speak most of health, have it. Those who speak most of wealth, have it. Those who speak most of joy, have it. The opposite also holds true. So which would you rather have?

Stephen Richards