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Happiness Quotes


"The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness."


"It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy."


"Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny."


"Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect."


"Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence."


"Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all."


"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."


"Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it."


"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."


"The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others."


"Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage."


"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."


"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."


"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."


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


"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."



"The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies."


"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness."


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


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


"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."


"The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity."


"Happiness should never be your ultimate goal as you can experience it everyday, it's a matter of choice."


"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school."


"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."



"Happiness is something we create ourselves. To our eyes, the sun appears to rise in the east every day to create a brilliant morning for the earth. The sun, however, does not create the morning alone: the earth also creates it actively as it rotates every day. We shouldn't just wait for happiness, either. Happiness doesn't come when we wait for it: we make it ourselves."


"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."
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