Happiness Quotes

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 secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.

Thucydides

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 which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy

Gretta Brooker Palmer

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

William Feather

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

Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action

Madame de Stael

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman MacEwan

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happinessÖ

Dalai Lama

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are

Henry Van Dyke

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

Helen Keller

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle