Top 100 Greatest Happiness Quotes
#1. Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
Thomas Brooks
#2. You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be.
A.D. Posey
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
#6. 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
#7. The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame De Stael
#8. The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham
#9. 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
#10. The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
Walter Annenberg
#11. The greatest happiness [ ... ] is to sneeze when you want to.
L.M. Montgomery
#12. 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
#14. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William, Saroyan
#15. Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion.
Allan Lokos
#16. 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
#18. The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.
Lester Levenson
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
David O. McKay
#22. That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Francis Hutcheson
#23. Happiness, ... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.
Josef Pieper
#24. The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
William Dean Howells
#25. The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.
Orhan Pamuk
#26. The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
#30. 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
#31. Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato
#32. My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Horatio Nelson
#33. If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#34. Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
E.F. Schumacher
#35. I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.
Charles M. Schwab
#36. If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#37. Love, caring, and the spirit of kindness always bring happiness. Our greatest happiness depends on what we love, how we care, and how we share.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
Sigmund Freud
#39. The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.
Genghis Khan
#40. There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness
Leo Tolstoy
#41. The greatest happiness is seeing the people you love happy.
Marty Rubin
#42. The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.
Immanuel Kant
#43. The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
Luther Burbank
#44. The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.
Peter Koestenbaum
#45. Good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
Aristotle.
#47. I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness ... My work has always been my greatest happiness
Mae West
#48. Through the thick and thin of it all, it is with every harmless personal dare that I have found my greatest happiness.
Sherrie Krantz
#49. The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.
Kedar Joshi
#50. Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine.
Alain De Botton
#51. The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#52. 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
#53. Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.
C.S. Lewis
#54. Know that the happiness we feel when we bring joy to others is the greatest happiness in the world.
Mokichi Okada
#55. The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.
Genghis Khan
#56. The redeemed, through all eternity, will never taste one of the pleasures of sin; yet their happiness is complete. It would be my greatest happiness to be from this moment entirely like them.
Andrew A. Bonar
#57. After dating for five years, my relationship with Irina Shayk has come to an end. We believed it would be best for both of us to take this step now. I wish Irina the greatest happiness.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#58. Your soul is always trying to guide you in your true life direction towards your highest good and greatest happiness.
Catherine Carrigan
#59. Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.
James Anthony Froude
#60. Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson
#62. As Thomas Jefferson said, "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of not finding one of your parents in a naked clench."That's not what he said? Well, he definitely should have
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#63. The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#65. The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or moreover, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
#66. My Jo, you may say anything to your mother, for it is my greatest happiness and pride to feel that my girls confide in me and know how much I love them.
Louisa May Alcott
#67. We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.
Herbie Hancock
#68. My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
#69. The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
#70. Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.
Rene Descartes
#71. So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#72. An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
John Eldredge
#73. Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#76. Your greatest self is never caused by a product; it is revealed by a choice to embrace your truth.
Steve Maraboli
#77. The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Epictetus
#78. A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others
Phil Harding
#79. 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
#80. 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
#82. Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.
Marvin J. Ashton
#83. 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
#84. The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
Agatha Christie
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#89. If anyone hurts you, love him; it is the greatest revenge.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Life is a mission but death is the greatest adventure.
Debasish Mridha
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#97. 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
#98. We get greatest joy not from receiving but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#99. 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
#100. The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.
Brian Tracy
