Top 999 Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

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

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.

I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Laughter is beyond truth - the ultimate happiness.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.

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.

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

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.

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

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

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.