158 Happy People Quotes

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too. - Anne Frank

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. — Anne Frank

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it. — Barbara Sher

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. — William Ralph Inge

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents. — Thales

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else. — Dean Smith

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. — Hugh Downs

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives. — Jane Rule

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life. — Brian Tracy

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. - Booker T. Washington

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. — Booker T. Washington

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world. — T. Harv Eker

People don't smile because they're happy. They're happy because they smile. — Lee Donghae

The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have. — Warren Buffett

Who will be the happiest person? 
 The one who brings happiness to others. - Swami Satchidananda

Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others. — Swami Satchidananda

The happiest people I know are not those who find their golden ticket; they are those who, while in pursuit of worthy goals, discover and treasure the beauty and sweetness of the everyday moments. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

Short Happy People Quotes

  • Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. — Karl Marx
  • The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve. — Rick Warren
  • People usually are the happiest at home. — William Shakespeare
  • Happiness belongs to the self sufficient. — Aristotle
  • Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. — Abraham Lincoln
  • Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself. — Sayings
  • Find a happy person, and you will find a project. — Sonja Lyubomirsky
  • Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. — Marcel Proust
  • if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it ! — Dale Carnegie
  • Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Top 10 Happy People Quotes

While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. - Albert Einstein

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. — Albert Einstein

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. French translationMarcel Pagnol

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

We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. — Lal Bahadur Shastri

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. — Ernest Hemingway

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations. — T. D. Jakes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton

Happy People Image Quotes

Happy people quote Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people
Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.
You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you. - Shams Tabrizi quote

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you. — Shams Tabrizi

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony quote

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. — Robert Anthony

Happy people quote Be happy. It really annoys negative people.
Be happy. It really annoys negative people.
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. - Anton Chekhov quote

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. — Anton Chekhov

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. - Marilyn Monroe quote

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. — Marilyn Monroe

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money. - John Spence quote

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money. — John Spence

Happy people quote Some people think I'm unhappy, but I'm not. I just appreciate silence in a world that never stops ta
Some people think I'm unhappy, but I'm not. I just appreciate silence in a world that never stops talking.
Some people are so poor, all they have is their money. - Blake Griffin quote

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money. — Blake Griffin

Happy people quote Keep people in your life that truly love you, motivate you, encourage you, inspire you, enhance you
Keep people in your life that truly love you, motivate you, encourage you, inspire you, enhance you and make you happy. If you have people who do none of the above, let them go.

Be Happy With Other People's Happiness Quotes

It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think. — Gerald Jampolsky

The key to a great life lies in shifting your focus from accumulation to contribution. The old saying "He who gathers the most toys wins" needs to be replaced with "He who serves the most prospers". Remember, happiness is the by-product of a life spent adding value to other people's lives. — Robin Sharma

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary, it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe. — Toni Collette

Happy people quote People are just as happy as they make up their mind to be
People are just as happy as they make up their mind to be

I just never understood why someone else's love life and who they love and who they choose to be with affects so many other people's livesI never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness. — Seimone Augustus

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy. — Chath Piersath

I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process. — Kevin Hart

Happy people quote If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great. — Ben Gibbard

After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me. — James Iha

What Is Happiness To You Quotes

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

You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you. — Nhat Hanh

When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about. — Thomas Keller

Happy people quote Happy people don’t worry about what other people think about them.
Happy people don’t worry about what other people think about them.

Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within. — John Spence

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life. — Billy Mills

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Happy people quote Happy people don't worry about what other people think of them.
Happy people don't worry about what other people think of them.

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times. — Zig Ziglar

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous. — Tony Hawk

To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it's a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it's stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have not by what you don't. — Michael Josephson

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer

Making People Happy Quotes

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through. — Karl Marx

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. — Alexander Fleming

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that. — Robin Williams

Happy people quote Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our sou
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience. — Oprah Winfrey

We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even — Thomas Sankara

Happy people quote Saying yes to happiness means learning to say no to the things and people that stress you out.
Saying yes to happiness means learning to say no to the things and people that stress you out.

You can't be afraid of what people are going to say, because you're never going to make everyone happy. — Selena Gomez

When people see you do alright, then you start winning their hearts. It's not going to come easy, though. It doesn't matter how many people you do right, you're still going to be hated by so many others. You can't live your life trying to make everybody happy. — Cam Newton

Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful. - Seth Godin

Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful. — Seth Godin

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is — A. R. Rahman

Happy Person Quotes

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. — Ralph Marston

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. — Julia Roberts

The average person is either a weakling, or just a happy person who wants to get along, or thinks being tough is having big muscles and strutting around town and having a good-looking girlfriend. — Alex Jones

Happy people quote It is not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy.
It is not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy.

When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you. — Nouman Ali Khan

I'm not upset when a person wants to move around, because I want everybody to be happy and I don't want nobody to feel like I'm holding them in a situation they shouldn't be in. — Pimp C

Having a child is an experience that teaches a person how important to prioritize the happiness of another person.Whatever you do, even whatever you are, is an example for him . In fact, that little being who depends on you so much , makes you also to have a huge dependence on him. — Neymar

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

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl

All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive. — Sayyid Qutb

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies. — Augusten Burroughs

Happy Family Quotes

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. - Ruth Graham

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham

On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . . — Mother Teresa

When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all. — Sayings

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. - William Wordsworth

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. — William Wordsworth

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. — George Burns

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. — Earl Nightingale

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. — General Robert E. Lee

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. — Agatha Christie

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. — Robert E. Lee

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself. — Nelson Mandela

Happy Man Quotes

I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out. — Lewis Grizzard

When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness! — Leon Trotsky

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. — Clive Barker

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan

Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself. — Tony Gaskins

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry — Abraham Lincoln

Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness. — Fulton J. Sheen

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. — Francis Bacon

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus

Happy Children Quotes

If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake. — Ruth Graham

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. — Maria Montessori

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. — Albert Einstein

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong. — Marianne Williamson

The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally. — Patrick Pearse

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making. — Charlotte Mason

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. — Margaret Mead

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky - William P. Young

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky — William P. Young

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. — Paulo Coelho

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives. — Beverly Cleary

Happy Couple Quotes

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. — Maya Angelou

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. — Oscar Wilde

I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it. — Tia Mowry

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do. — Parker Stevenson

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage. — Elizabeth Aston

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. — Oscar Wilde

Take a couple of days by yourself and rent a nice cabin in some nice, happy place. Stay a day or two and meditate and take walks in areas that feel good to you. Find out who you are again. Remember. — Frederick Lenz

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. — Neil Simon

Happy couples make it a habbit to refocus. Because it's quite normal to be distracted. So they talk. They get away for a while. They pray. They go on a marriage retreat. They take a second honeymoon or a 3rd, or 4th, or a 5th... — Bo Sanchez

I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home. — Rob Ford

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More Happy People Quotes

The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. — Alexander Hamilton

Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. — Cyrus the Great

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy. — Blaise Pascal

Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future. — Prince Charles

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. — Zig Ziglar

You don't need too many people to be happy. Just a few real ones who appreciate you for who you are. — Wiz Khalifa

Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't. — Fanny Crosby

Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness. Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and others. Through your kindness to others, your mind and heart will open to peace. — Dalai Lama

People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done. — Tony Gaskins

I don't need to put jewels on to make myself feel important. I'd rather drop them for the benefit of less fortunate people. I don't need to put gold on my body, and I'm not criticizing people who do, but for me, I'd rather be around my family and see them be happy because that's worth more to me than gold. — Immortal Technique

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. — Tommy Douglas

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. — Bertrand Russell

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. — Georgia O'Keeffe

People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another. — Mother Teresa

Happiness is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes. If you find it, please, don't take it for granted. If you Happen to stray from it, don't let negative obstacles overcome you. Anger and rage only detour you from your final objectives. The future holds nothing but opportunity, and good things happen to good people I promise — Jeff Hardy

Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself. — Mike Murdock

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least. — Booker T. Washington

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. — Kanye West

There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each. — Robert Owen

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