40 Happiness Quotes To Make You Smile

Happiness is not an emotion, but rather a state of being.

If you’re looking for a way to brighten your mood, one of these happiness quotes is sure to do the trick. The pursuit of happiness is one that has long been philosophized by thought leaders and literary greats, often ending with questions such as: What makes us happy? Most would agree that happiness is an inside job.

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Short Happiness Quotes

• “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

• “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” ― John Lennon

• “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” ― Tom Bodett

• “Happiness is a warm puppy.” ― Charles M. Schulz

• “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” ― Gabriel García Márquez

• “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” ― W.P. Kinsella

• “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” ― Ayn Rand

• “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.” ― Charlotte Bronte

• “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” ― Guillaume Apollinaire

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Happiness Quotes From Literature

• “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

• “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

• “Whoever is happy will make others happy.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

• “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, How to Win Friends and Influence People

• “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, Anne of Green Gables

• “Happiness [is] only real when shared.” ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

• “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

• “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” ― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

• “The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.” ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

• “Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.” ― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Quotes About Happiness At Work

• “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

• “Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.” – Helen Keller

• “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

• Happiness Quotes From Famous Leaders

• “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln

• “Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” ― Helen Keller

• “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh

• “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

• “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

• “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

• “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ― Aristotle

• "There is little success where there is little laughter."― Andrew Carnegie

• “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt

• “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

Happiness Quotes For Kids

• “Remember, you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine.” ― Snow White, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

• “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, Peter Pan

• “There comes a day when you’re gonna look around and realize happiness is where you are.” ― Chief Tui, Moana

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