1. The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. - Henry David Thoreau 

2. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt 

3. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - Thomas Jefferson 

4. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. - Albert Camus 

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

6. One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. - Maria Montessori

7. Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. - George Eliot 

8. Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. - Immanuel Kant 

9. Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. - Immanuel Kant 

10. 'Happiness' is a pointless goal. - Jordan Peterson 

11. Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. - Langston Hughes 

12. Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. - Robert Baden-Powell 

13. Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp. - Robert Baden-Powell 

14. There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. - Dante Alighieri 

15. Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. - John Ruskin 

16. The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. - Paramahansa Yogananda 

17. What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? - Adam Smith 

18. Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. - Anton Chekhov 

19. We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. - Mary Oliver 

20. The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. - Fyodor Dostoevsky 

21. Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness. - Ezra Taft Benson

 22. One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity. - Ezra Taft Benson 

23. The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. - William Morris 

24. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. - Nikos Kazantzakis 

25. The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. - Thucydides 

26. The will of man is his happiness. - Friedrich Schiller 

27. The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. - Jeremy Bentham 

28. America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. - Louis D. Brandeis 

29. I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.' - Sandra Bullock 

30. I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. - Frederic Chopin 

31. I've become a true Muslim. It's giving me happiness. It's made me become content as a man and helped me to grow. I've just got faith in it, and it has definitely helped me become the man I am today. - Sonny Bill Williams 

32. Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. - Ausonius 

33. There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. - Mary Wortley Montagu 

34. A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. - Mary Wortley Montagu 

35. See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. - James Freeman Clarke 

36. In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ. - Ann Voskamp 

37. In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally. - Cesare Beccaria

 38. My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai. - Tony Jaa 

39. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. - Confucius

 40. Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. - Benjamin Franklin 

41. Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. - Benjamin Franklin 

42. We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

43. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification's but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller 

44. No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. - Helen Keller 

45. No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. - Helen Keller 

46. Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller 

47. But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. - William Shakespeare 

48. Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle 

49. Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. - Aristotle 

50. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt 

51. If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success. - Zig Ziglar 

52. Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. - Mahatma Gandhi 

53. The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. - Virginia Woolf 

54. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. - Plato 

55. Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. - Plato 

56. The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. - Ernest Hemingway 

57. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. - Thomas Jefferson 

58. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw 

59. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. - George Bernard Shaw 

60. A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

61. Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

62. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. - C. S. Lewis 

63. Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? - C. S. Lewis 

64. There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. - Nelson Mandela 

65. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. - Khalil Gibran 

66. A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. - Soren Kierkegaard

 67. Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. - Henry Ford 

68. There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. - Henry Ford 

69. I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. - Audrey Hepburn 

70. Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. - Albert Camus 

71. Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. - Albert Camus 

72. The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. - Frederick Douglass 

73. Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness. - John C. Maxwell 

74. Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. - Saint Augustine 

75. Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. - Napoleon Hill 

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

77. If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. - Epictetus 

78. Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. - Paulo Coelho 

79. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. - Paulo Coelho 

80. I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing. - Paulo Coelho 

81. Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species. - Paulo Coelho 

82. Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. - Joel Osteen 

83. Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. - Pablo Picasso 

84. People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future. - Eckhart Tolle 

85. It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. - Dalai Lama 

86. More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. - Dalai Lama 

87. With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

88. It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

89. Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

90. We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

91. There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way. - Thich Nhat Hanh

92. You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

93. Happiness is the cessation of suffering. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

94. We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

95. We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

96. Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. - George Washington 

97. There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. - George Washington

 98. A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. - Charles Spurgeon 

99. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo 

100. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo