Top 100 Greatest Happiness Quotes
#1. Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#3. Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
Thomas Brooks
#4. You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be.
A.D. Posey
#5. Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.
Richard Layard, Baron Layard
#7. Your greatest self is never caused by a product; it is revealed by a choice to embrace your truth.
Steve Maraboli
#8. The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Epictetus
#9. A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others
Phil Harding
#10. Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.
Xi Jinping
#11. I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.
Steve Maraboli
#13. Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.
Marvin J. Ashton
#14. The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life ... The Bible ... should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.
Benjamin Rush
#15. The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
Agatha Christie
#16. Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Greatest happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships
Gary Chapman
#17. So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Carl Jung
#18. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
#19. The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.
Thomas Jefferson
#20. Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish.
Steve Maraboli
#21. The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart.
Allan Lokos
#23. The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame De Stael
#24. The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham
#25. If anyone hurts you, love him; it is the greatest revenge.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind ... Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
#28. Life is a mission but death is the greatest adventure.
Debasish Mridha
#29. The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
Walter Annenberg
#30. The utilitarian morality does recognise in human beings the power of sacrificing their own greatest good for the good of others. It only refuses to admit that the sacrifice is itself a good. A sacrifice which does not increase, or tend to increase, the sum total of happiness, it considers as wasted.
John Stuart Mill
#31. The greatest happiness [ ... ] is to sneeze when you want to.
L.M. Montgomery
#32. As a child i used to complain to my father about not having toys and he would say (calvero points at his own head) this is the greatest toy ever created. Here lies the secret of all happiness.
Anonymous
#33. To fill your life with joy and happiness, the greatest gift that you can give is love and kindness. Wishing you a memorable birthday!
Debasish Mridha
#34. There is a deep truth in being at home enough with someone to kiss them while your lips are dry. And happiness may not be the greatest of things to hear, but it should be.
Mikl Paul
#36. The greatest thing about dreams is they don't expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.
Casi McLean
#37. We get greatest joy not from receiving but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#38. To be entranced, to be driven, to be obsessed, to be under the spell of an emerging, not quite fully 'comprehended' narrative
this is the greatest happiness of the writer's life even as it burns us out and exhausts us, unfitting us for the placid contours of 'normality.
Joyce Carol Oates
#39. Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.
Criss Jami
#40. The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.
Brian Tracy
#41. Since graduating from HMS my greatest satisfaction has unequivocally been my family. My main disappointment is that I have wasted too much time in personal pursuits and been less of an influence for good than I might have been.
Norris B. Finlayson
#42. If you walk in any direction walk in the direction toward your greatest dream.
Shannon L. Alder
#44. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William, Saroyan
#45. What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness.
Clarence Francis
#46. The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
Michael Pollan
#47. The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#48. The whole world, from the least to the greatest, must know the truth, so that man may understand the great laws that govern his life. He must learn to control his own destiny, to heal his own body and bring happiness to his own soul.
Ernest Holmes
#49. Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion.
Allan Lokos
#50. Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
Bertrand Russell
#51. Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.
Erich Fromm
#52. The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
William Barclay
#53. The process of discovering your greatest self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern and hinder it.
Steve Maraboli
#54. She'd helped me see that the greatest way to honor them was to live the best life I could - to find happiness again.
Sara B. Larson
#56. Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you ... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.
Eugene Delacroix
#58. The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.
Lester Levenson
#59. One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher
J.E.B. Spredemann
#60. Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#61. The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It's the tender understanding that we're living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there's quite a bit of wonder in that.
F.K. Preston
#62. Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
David O. McKay
#63. Life gives us the greatest opportunity to serve and be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#64. The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.
Steve Maraboli
#65. Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Ray Lyman Wilbur
#66. That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Francis Hutcheson
#67. All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The difference between a saint and the greatest sinner is where they go to satisfy that hunger.
Christopher West
#68. All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.
Smiley Blanton
#69. Happiness, ... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.
Josef Pieper
#70. Love is the greatest gift that you can give to humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#71. The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
William Dean Howells
#72. The greatest pollution problem is not found in the atmosphere, water, or soil; but in the minds of 90% of the population, which are contaminated with negative thoughts and beliefs.
Maddy Malhotra
#73. Acknowledge the present moment. It is the greatest present in your life.
Debasish Mridha
#74. Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you happy or miserable
Shane Eric Mathias
#75. If you're always grateful for what you have, then you will always be happy. The greatest reason for misery and unhappiness today is because of dissatisfaction, complaining, and being ungrateful for the things we have.
Jeanette Coron
#76. Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.
Mario Stinger
#77. Cicero said that gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. If that's true, then my happiness does not cause me to be grateful for what I have. My gratitude for what I have causes me to be happy. Gratitude births the virtue of happiness.
Jennifer Dukes Lee
#78. The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.
Orhan Pamuk
#79. To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.
Jean Giraudoux
#80. Kindness is the greatest gift for the humanity. Nothing is more important than to be kind to each other.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Kindness is the greatest love,
it is the healing touch,
it is the light of our soul,
it is a message from the heart.
Debasish Mridha
#82. The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.
Aristotle.
#83. The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#84. The relationship you take for granted is the one that needs the greatest work.
George Alexiou
#85. Sir, I am a true laborer; I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm; and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck. (As You Like It, Act 3, Sc. 2.)
William Shakespeare
#86. The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
Joseph Butler
#87. I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.
Russell Simmons
#88. It was God's fault, for taunting her as He had. For not granting her what He had granted so many other women. For dangling before her, tantalizingly, what He knew would give her the greatest happiness, then pulling it away.
Khaled Hosseini
#89. I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.
Meryl Streep
#90. Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.
Patti Page
#91. Appreciation empowers not just money transactions, but all interactions. Gratitude is one of the greatest meditations of a lifetime, the fastest attitude uplifter I know. Be grateful for all the good in your life and your good will only increase, along with your happiness.
Alan Cohen
#92. This, and no other, is justice: - to consider, under all the circumstances and consequences of a particular case, how the greatest quantity and purest quality of happiness will ensue from any action ... there is no other justice.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#93. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.
Marianne Williamson
#94. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
#95. Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#96. I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
Elizabeth George
#97. I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
Nan Fairbrother
#98. The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.
Zig Ziglar
#99. Life has no destination; it is the greatest journey with the greatest intention.
Debasish Mridha
#100. Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato
