Happiness Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Samuel Richardson

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

George Bernard Shaw

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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

Mohandas Gandhi

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Jean de la Bruyere

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

George Santayana

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

Honore de Balzac

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Albert Einstein

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

George Bernard Shaw

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Charles Baudelaire

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Matthew Arnold

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Bertrand Russell

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Victoria Woodhull

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Anton Chekhov

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

Paul Tsongas

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeats

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton