Quotes about happiness

Welcome to our Happiness collection, a haven of positivity, joy, and the pursuit of a life well-lived. In this curated compilation of quotes, we dive into the multi-faceted world of happiness, exploring the emotions, perspectives, and pathways that lead to a fulfilled and contented life.

Happiness is more than a fleeting emotion; it's a state of mind, a journey, and a universal aspiration that transcends cultures and backgrounds. Our Happiness quotes celebrate the essence of joy, the art of gratitude, and the transformative power of choosing happiness as a guiding principle.

Whether you're on a quest for inner contentment, seeking inspiration to uplift your spirits, or simply curious about the philosophy of happiness, these quotes offer insights into the facets of life that bring us true joy.

Embark on a journey that explores the psychology of happiness, the moments that elicit smiles, and the significance of cultivating positive attitudes. Discover the happiness that comes from meaningful connections, self-discovery, and the small pleasures that remind us of the beauty in each day.

Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett
English Novelist
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Cristela Alonzo
Cristela Alonzo
American Comedian
If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.
Christina Grimmie
Christina Grimmie
American Musician
I'm one of those people who laughs everything off. If I mess up, I just say, 'Ha! Totally didn't mean to do that.'
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
American President
Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
Christian Dior
Christian Dior
French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses Christian Dior SE
All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
Novelist
Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.
Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
Kathleen McGowan
Kathleen McGowan
Historical Novelist Weaving Spirituality & History
Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.
Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel Heroes
I'm just somebody who tries to write things that entertain people. And if I can do it in a way that makes them prefer to emulate the good guy than the bad guy, I'm happy.
Peter Deunov
Peter Deunov
Spiritual Teacher & Philosopher
If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.
Harvey Mackay
Harvey Mackay
Business Guru & Motivational Speaker
Look in the mirror every day and say, I am in charge. You might not have control over every phase of your life, but you have more control than you realize, and you are responsible for your own happiness and success.
Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin
Musician
Everything they do, from smiling to crying, feels like a blessing. Being a father feels amazing. This has been the most spiritual moment in my life.
Aisha Tyler
Aisha Tyler
American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college, I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn't performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
Tracey Edmonds
Tracey Edmonds
American businesswoman, television producer and personality
Happy Tuesday! Stay in the LIGHT. Hold onto positive things that elevate your spirit & be with positive people who make your life dance !
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire
American country music singer, actress and businesswoman
If you're happy, you've got the Lord on your side.
Ranbir Kapoor
Ranbir Kapoor
Indian actor known for his work in Hindi-language films
Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu
Indian actress and model
I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.
Leon Brown
Leon Brown
Baseball player
Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.
Margaret Lindsay
Margaret Lindsay
American film actress
This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
French military and political leader
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.
Beyonce
Beyonce
American singer, songwriter, and actress
Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist
You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews
English actress, singer, and author
I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?
Nick Vujicic
Nick Vujicic
Australian American Christian evangelist and motivational speaker
There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices.
Gabrielle Bernstein
Gabrielle Bernstein
New York Times Bestselling author, motivational speaker, spiritual leader, and podcast host
Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologist
In the land of the lotus-eaters there is no action. Action arises only from need, from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards something. Its ultimate end is always to get rid of a condition which is conceived to be deficient-to fulfill a need, to achieve satisfaction, to increase happiness.
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
American novelist, short story writer
Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but happiness.
John Gray
John Gray
English political philosopher and author
If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.
John Adams
John Adams
American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush
Politician, physician, philosopher, educator, one of the founding fathers of the United States in the broadest sense of the term
Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
Indian author
I do believe that fundamental to any real hope is that we do need to reconstitute what has been generally handed out as the recipe for "happiness" for the human race, and what has generally been decided counts as "progress." People arrive at a different understanding of happiness, however fragile it is. They find it in unexpected ways, in the most unexpected of places.
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan period
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent
French fashion designer
When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
Gisele Bundchen
Gisele Bundchen
Brazilian model, activist, and businesswoman
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.
Cristela Alonzo
Cristela Alonzo
American Comedian
Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
Novelist
Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.
For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?
Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel Heroes
I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.
Peter Deunov
Peter Deunov
Spiritual Teacher & Philosopher
Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.
Harvey Mackay
Harvey Mackay
Business Guru & Motivational Speaker
Happiness can be thought, taught and caught... but not bought.
Aisha Tyler
Aisha Tyler
American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
Tracey Edmonds
Tracey Edmonds
American businesswoman, television producer and personality
Happy Friday! Happiness begins with a loving heart! Open your heart and share time with those who warm your heart and make you smile!
Leon Brown
Leon Brown
Baseball player
Plant the seed of positivity into your mind, nourish it daily with love and happiness will flower, as fear begins to die.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist
Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.
Nick Vujicic
Nick Vujicic
Australian American Christian evangelist and motivational speaker
I found happiness when I realized that as imperfect as I may be, I am the perfect Nick Vujicic. I am God's creation, designed according to His plan for me. That's not to say there isn't room for improvement. I'm always trying to be better so I can better serve Him and the world!
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.
Gabrielle Bernstein
Gabrielle Bernstein
New York Times Bestselling author, motivational speaker, spiritual leader, and podcast host
Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologist
War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.
John Adams
John Adams
American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan period
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent
French fashion designer
Good clothing is a passport for happiness.
These are the moments for which we live.
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
Peter Deunov
Peter Deunov
Spiritual Teacher & Philosopher
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.
Harvey Mackay
Harvey Mackay
Business Guru & Motivational Speaker
Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.
Tracey Edmonds
Tracey Edmonds
American businesswoman, television producer and personality
Happy Friday! You're responsible for the energy of your day. Remember, when you give off positive energy, you attract it ! Decide to be Happy:)!
Leon Brown
Leon Brown
Baseball player
Love must be the first thought and the last thought of the day, if you wish to live in peace and happiness.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist
The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you.
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.
Gabrielle Bernstein
Gabrielle Bernstein
New York Times Bestselling author, motivational speaker, spiritual leader, and podcast host
Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make.
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologist
If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty. Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams. Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
John Adams
John Adams
American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father
All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan period
Virtue alone is happiness below.
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body; the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.
I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.
Tracey Edmonds
Tracey Edmonds
American businesswoman, television producer and personality
Happy Wednesday! Happiness is found from within when you learn to appreciate your blessings, LIVE in the present and LOVE!
Leon Brown
Leon Brown
Baseball player
You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist
Making other people happy is what brings me happiness. I have a blessed life, and I have always shared my life's gifts with others. I will continue to use my voice and my life as a catalyst for encouraging people to help make a difference in the lives of others.
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.