Top 101 Happiness Quotes

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Happiness is sometimes something that is hard to have. With that in mind, check out the top 101 happiness quotes to help you.

#101 – 90. Happiness Quotes

101. If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a month — get married. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else. – Chinese Proverb

100. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus

99. Family, friends, a good laugh and beautiful weather are the best cures. – Bar Refaeli

98. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human—in not having to be just happy or just sad—in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. – C. JoyBell C.

97. The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. – Doug Larson

96. No medicine cures what happiness cannot. – Gabriel García Márquez

95. Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. – Guillaume Apollinaire

94. Where one is wise two are happy. – Proverb

93. Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. – Don Marquis

92. …happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it… – Aristotle

91. It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. – Charles Spurgeon

90. If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton

#89 – 80. Happiness Quotes

89. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand

88. Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. – Channing Pollock

87. There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. – Freya Stark

86. Call no man happy till he is dead. – Aeschylus

85. We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. – Frederick Keonig

84. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. – Chuck Palahniuk

83. We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh. – William James

82. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now. – Gerald Jampolsky

81. If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. – Aristotle

80. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. – Carl Jung

#79 – 70. Happiness Quotes

79. People should find happiness in the little things, like family. – Amanda Bynes

78. We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement. – David C. Hill

77. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt

76. It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. – Dale Carnegie

75. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

74. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. – Albert Einstein

73. Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect. – Alain De Botton

72. As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. – Andrew Delbanco

71. To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. – Henri Frederic Amiel

70. A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. – Bernard de Fontenelle

#69 – 60. Happiness Quotes

69. Seek it outside and you’ll be exhausted. Seek it inside you’ll find a path. – Maxime Lagacé

68. Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. – Greg Anderson

67. Happy girls are the prettiest. – Audrey Hepburn

66. It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich. – Alan Alda

65. All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. – Baruch Spinoza

64. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. – Maya Angelou

63. Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. – Frank Tyger

62. I am very happy because I have conquered myself and not the world. I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself. – Sri Chinmoy

61. Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

60. Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. – Colette

#59 – 50. Happiness Quotes

59. Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. – Cynthia Nelms

58. Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. – Robert Anthony

57. Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. – Abraham Lincoln

56. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. – Joseph Addison

55. I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy. – Allen J. Lefferdink

54. Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. – Divyanka Tripathi

53. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. – Douglas Jerrold

52. 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. – Joseph Addison

51. Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it. – Proverb

50. True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self. – Joseph Addison

#49 – 40. Happiness Quotes

49. Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. – Joseph Addison

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

47. Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour. – Walt Whitman

46. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

45. There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. – Charlotte Bronte

44. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller

43. The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. – Epictetus

42. Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking. – H.W. Byles

41. Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. – Chinese Proverb

40. Whoever is happy will make others happy. – Anne Frank

#39 – 30. Happiness Quotes

39. Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else. – Dr. Idel Dreimer

38. The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. – Carrie Jones

37. If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. – Andrew Carnegie

36. If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. – English Proverb

35. Happiness is a positive cash flow. – Fred Adler

34. Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. – Guillaume Apollinaire

33. My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness. – Evangeline Lilly

32. There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness. – Proverb

31. There is more to life than increasing its speed. – Mahatma Gandhi

30. I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. – Diego Val

#29 – 20. Happiness Quotes

29. Happiness is a place between too much and too little. – Finnish proverb

28. He is rich who owes nothing. – Proverb

27. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Joseph Addison

26. People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know. – Dany Laferrière

25. Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive. – Elbert Hubbard

24. While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment. – Proverb

23. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. – Buddha

22. Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. – Marthe Troly-Curtin

21. If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. – Chinese proverb

20. It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness. – Richard Branson

#19 – 10. Happiness Quotes

19. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. – Earl Nightingale

18. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

17. The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. – Eric Hoffer

16. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. – Epictetus

15. Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. – Albert Schweitzer

14. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama

13. That’s your unlimited desires that are clouding your peace, your happiness. – Naval Ravikant

12. Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. – Alan Cohen

11. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. – Ludwig Jacobowski

10. Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw

#9 – 1. Happiness Quotes

9. What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. – Colette

8. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. – Denis Waitley

7. Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. – Gretta Brooker Palmer

6. Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. – E.L. Konigsburg

5. Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. – Benjamin Franklin

4. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell

3. Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. – Louisa May Alcott

2. Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it. – Lou Holtz

1. Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. – Ayn Rand

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