Happiness Quotes

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Whoever is happy will make others happy."

- Anne Frank

"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

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Happiness [is] only real when shared."

- Jon Krakauer

"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."

- Jane Austen

"The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count."

- Jennifer Niven

"Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things."

- Ann Brashares

"I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious."

- Vince Lombardi

"Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."

- Johnny Carson

"I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don’t waste time – grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it’s not fun, move on."

- Richard Branson

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

- Mother Teresa

"There is little success where there is little laughter."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

- Helen Keller

"It is not easy to find happiness within yourself, but impossible to find it elsewhere."

- Agnes Repplier

"Remember, you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine."

- Snow White

"If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours."

- Dolly Parton

"If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

"Now, think of the happiest things. It’s the same as having wings."

- Peter Pan

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."

- Ashley Montagu

"The only joy in the world is to begin."

- Cesare Pavese

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis."

- Margaret Bonanno

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."

"Happiness is a journey, not a destination."

"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats."