Happiness Sayings & Quotes
These happiness sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! - William Hazlitt
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it, ever bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. - John D. Rockefeller
Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. - Dag Hammarskjold
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. - Lord William Beveridge
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. - George Santayana
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. - Bertrand Russell
The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else. - Marcelene Cox
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. - Samuel Johnson
Let us not distain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life. - Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. - Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. - Bertrand Russell
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. - Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. - Brian Tracy