Top 100 Happy Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best happy quotes ever written, picked out of the full happy archive on QuoteForever. You will find Mason Cooley, Samuel Johnson, Anatole France and Leon Brown among them.

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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

2

You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. - Sam Levenson3

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

4

I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as something special, it would create a barrier between us. What makes us the same is that we all want to lead happy lives and gather friends around us. And friendship is based on trust, honesty and openness.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. - Denis Diderot5

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

6

Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.

7

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

8

Blonds look angelic, but can (oh, happy!) be fleshy as well.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, ... - Norman Vincent Peale9

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

10

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

11

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

12

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

13

The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.

14

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

15

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

16

I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it's in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face.

17

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

18

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

19

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

20

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

21

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

22

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.

23

It feels so good to be happy.

24

I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me.

25

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

26

I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.

27

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

28

I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy.

29

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it's always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything.

30

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

31

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

32

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

33

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

34

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

35

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

36

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

37

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

38

You should never, ever apologize for anything that makes you happy.

39

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

40

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

41

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

42

I'm lucky enough to be with someone, and I am happy.

43

No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.'

44

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

45

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.

46

Not enough people in this world are happy.

47

I loved working on 'Happy Gilmore' because I love to travel to new places and we got to go to British Columbia. Any Adam Sandler film is fun to work on because it is a reunion of the boys club of guys that have worked together in the past.

48

I feel like I'm at a really happy, good space.

49

There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.

50

I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.

51

I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

52

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

53

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

54

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

55

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

56

There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. A child's smile is worth more than all the money in the world.

57

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.

58

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

59

You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

60

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

61

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

62

If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'

63

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

64

I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.

65

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

66

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.

67

I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants.

68

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

69

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

70

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

71

I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

72

I'm just an all-around happy girl who loves everything about her life.

73

If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.

74

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

75

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.

76

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

77

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

78

If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

79

I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

80

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

81

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

82

I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.

83

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

84

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

85

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

86

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

87

I feel happy to terrify kids.

88

At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative women, I want my customer to walk away with a silhouette that she doesn't even know what collection it comes from. That it just lasts in her wardrobe and makes her feel strong and confident and hopefully happy.

89

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

90

I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.

91

I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.

92

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

93

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

94

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

95

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

96

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

97

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

98

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

99

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy.

100

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

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