Happiness Quotes: What Other People Have Said About Happiness

What is Happiness?

These happiness quotes inform us about the author's opinions on what happiness is. They deserve a little time to ponder on each one, for each is a gem of advice for us.

• Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. 
  Margaret Lee Runbeck


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


• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
  Victor Hugo


• Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
  Werner Erhard


• Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
  Jim Rohn


• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
  Hugh Downs


• The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
  Ben Stein

Happiness is a Choice

The authors of these happiness quotes subscribe to the notion that happiness is a choice. If you've not considered this idea before, it's certainly something to think about.

• The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
  Marcus A. Antoninus


• Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
  Abraham Lincoln


• Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.
  Sharon Stone


• Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
  Francesca Reigler


• Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.
  Author unknown


• Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
  Marcus Aurelius


• Happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
  Dale Carnegie


• You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
  Ernie Banks


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


• No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
  Barbara De Angelis


• I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
  Groucho Marx


• If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. 
  Robert Brault


• Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design
  Jim Rohn

How to be Happy

These happiness quotes are from people who are giving us advice on how to be happy.

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


• When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
  The Dalai Lama


• Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.
  Dale Carnegie


• The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
  Robert G. Ingersoll


• Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
  Paramhansa Yogananda


• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
  Oprah Winfrey


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


• Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.
  Earl Nightingale


• It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there's always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
  Zig Ziglar


• Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy.
  Gretta Brooker Palmer


• Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
  Norman Vincent Peale

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