Happiness Quotes – Best Happy Quotation for You

If you are like most people, happiness is one of your main goals in life. This is why you work really hard to stay positive and avoid anything that worries, scares or annoys you every day. However, no matter how hard you try, happiness won’t be that easy to achieve. You need to be focused and committed if you want to change your perspective and be happy about your life.

To motivate you, here’s our collection of the best happy quotes that can brighten your day and make you feel better.

Famous happiness quotes

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln

See Also: 30 Famous Abraham Lincoln Quotes & Facts

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.  – James Openheim

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

See Also: 30 Famous John Lennon Quotes

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. – Gretta Brooker Palmer

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters. – Audrey Hepburn

See Also: Famous Audrey Hepburn Quotes & Images

It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. – Frank McKinney Hubbard

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust

Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. – W.P. Kinsella

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. – Lady Blessington

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.  

If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy

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

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

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. – Groucho Marx

The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the best out of everything that comes their way.

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton

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

See Also: 75 Awakening Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. – Hazelmarie Elliott

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. – Anton Chekhov

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. – Rita Mae Brown

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. – Thich Nhat Hanh

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. – Diego Val

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama XIV

In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself. 

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. – Bernard Meltzer

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

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. – Jean de La Bruyere

The first recipe for happiness is avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. – Andre Maurois

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances. – Martha Washington

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

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

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that makes you sad. – Saily Dose

See Also: Smile Quotes – 30 Quotes about Smiling that Brighten Your Day

♥ Connect with SayingImages on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter!