Top 40 Inspiring Happiness Quotes

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Carrie Underwood

Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.

Stacey Charter

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

W.P. Kinsella

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

Dita Von Teese

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Ayn Rand

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Kevyn Aucoin

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

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 greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness.

Abraham Hicks

If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

Roy T. Bennett

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Immanuel Kant

If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.

If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.

If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.

If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.

Chinese Proverb

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.

Roy T. Bennett

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Frederick Keonig

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Andy Rooney

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.

Dennis Waitley

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

Doris Mortman

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

Mary Stuart

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Anthony de Mello

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

William James

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.

Dale Carnegie

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Chuck Palahniuk

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Herman Cain

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

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

John Lennon

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk