Quotes about Happiness
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.
- Epicurus
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
- Joseph Addison
True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.
- Joseph Addison
Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!
- Christian Furchtegott Gellert
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
- Samuel Johnson
Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."
- Anonymous
Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.
- William Barclay
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
- George Bernard Shaw
Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Happy is he that chastens himself.
- Anonymous
Better be happy than wise.
- Anonymous