Top 100 Happy People Quotes
#1. I would have Simon Cowell sing 'Shiny Happy People' by R.E.M. just to show his true personality.
Sanjaya Malakar
#2. I love weddings: happy people coming together to celebrate in great clothes.
Brad Goreski
#3. Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don't know it.
Daniel J. Levitin
#4. Why aren't you happy? they tend to focus on their current circumstances. Happy people look to Someone so big that by his grace, even great difficulties provide opportunities for a deeper kind of happiness.
Randy Alcorn
#5. Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.
Lewis B. Smedes
#7. Well, for example, happy people are more likely to register joy than unhappy people. So if you take two people who have experienced a day of, say, fifty percent good things and fifty percent bad things, an unhappy person would remember more of the bad.
Katherine Center
#8. Personally, I don't like inherently happy people. I don't trust them. I think there's something seriously wrong with anyone who isn't at least a little let down by the world.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#10. Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
Denis Waitley
#12. The British scholar Avner Offer calls attention "the universal currency of well-being." Attentive people, in other words, are happy people. Tashi
Eric Weiner
#13. There are no happy endings there are only happy people.
Dorothy Gilman
#14. Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.
Alan Cohen
#16. Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.
Barbara Sher
#17. I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.
Shonda Rhimes
#18. One of the ways to be happy, to be truly happy, is to contribute to a cause that is greater than yourself. And, through Harvard-based research, we can see that happy people live longer.
Sheryl WuDunn
#19. The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.
Norman Vincent Peale
#20. they were that rarest of human creatures: genuinely happy people.
Nancy Thayer
#21. I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
Barbara Corcoran
#22. Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.
Willy Bogner Jr.
#23. It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
Jane Addams
#24. The only happy people in the world
are those who do not have to write long poems
John Berryman
#25. Abraham Maslow, the man who gave us Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, once said: "The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
Brad Hams
#26. Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence
Dennis Prager
#27. I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.
Shirley Manson
#28. When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they're all smiling at me, and it's a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy ...
John Frusciante
#29. How many happy people do you think there are in the world? Twelve?
Daniel Handler
#30. I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people.
Rachel Machacek
#31. April was too lonely a month to spend alone. In April, everyone around me looked happy. People would throw their coats off and enjoy each other's company in the sunshine - talking, playing catch, holding hands. But I was always by myself
Haruki Murakami
#32. I'm happy people look at me as a role model.
Lara Stone
#33. Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.
Ryan Cabrera
#34. Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.
Gretchen Rubin
#35. There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.
Clayton Christensen
#36. Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.
Right and wrong, however, are for - well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.
Hanya Yanagihara
#37. In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#38. Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.
T. Harv Eker
#39. We always fear losing our memory, yet it's the source of our troubles. Happy people forget.
Jean-Michel Guenassia
#40. I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it.
R. Kelly
#42. Grateful people are good people, and good people are happy people
Dennis Prager
#43. We are a happy people, content with what life has given us. We don't covet anything that others have. And we are happy with who we are.
Morgan Rice
#44. Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world.
Tito Jackson
#45. I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of movies about happy people living in Connecticut. And ever since then, that was where I wanted to live. I thought it would be like the movies. And it really is. It's exactly what I hoped it would be.
Polly Bergen
#46. Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.
Frank Pittman
#47. Life Is Fair I am sure you have heard the question "Why do bad things happen to good people?", but bad things happen to both good people and bad people equally. Good things happen to happy people.
Vivian Amis
#48. Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy.
Steve Wynn
#49. Happy people look young. You're really afraid of getting older, aren't you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.
Deborah Smith
#52. You don't need to travel far to make people happy. When you make people nearer to you happy, people farther away from you will surely come. Keep doing it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#53. Yiddish is a cheerful language of not so happy people.
Boris Zubry
#54. The truly happy people are those who have a source of happiness too deep to be seriously disturbed by ordinary troubles.
Marion K. Rich
#55. Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.
Seth Godin
#56. It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven't you noticed that before?
David Eddings
#57. Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that's how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It's because they've seen the depths.
Brianna Wiest
#58. I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.
Raf Simons
#59. The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick
Bernie Siegel
#60. Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.
Robinson Jeffers
#61. I interviewed 100 happy people - I call them my Happy 100 - and I learned amazing ideas and techniques from them that I began integrating into my life. I put them into practice - and they worked! I went from a D+ in happiness to an A-.
Marci Shimoff
#63. In intimate conversation I am as supportive and positive as the next man, but gatherings of happy people make me miserable. I long to share in the collective joy, but instead I am racked with anxiety.
Joel Derfner
#64. Happy people create happiness; it's the most contagious energy on Earth. Fearful, sad, angry, or miserable people only tend to spread these same qualities, even if working in the name of social conscience.
Dan Millman
#65. When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
#66. Happy people attract other happy people. Show the world your smile, and the world will smile back.
Denise Austin
#67. There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.
Anna Paquin
#68. I'm very much into the Gypsy Kings. It's rumba and very festive, very passionate music, rhythmic guitar, passionate singing about love from happy people.
Sofia Milos
#69. happy people have often experienced as much adversity as those who are unhappy. What sets them apart is that they have the good sense to manage their memories in a way that enriches their lives.
Robin S. Sharma
#71. 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
#72. To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'.
Ray Stedman
#73. Contemporary research shows that happy people are more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, more interested in others, friendlier, and healthier. Happy people make better friends, colleagues, and citizens.
Gretchen Rubin
#74. Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.
Bill Drayton
#75. We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people.
Diane Flynn Keith
#76. It's fun to play happy people.
Amy Ryan
#77. One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
Coco Chanel
#78. Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive.
David Niven
#79. Shiny happy people don't hold guns in their laps that way.
Stephen King
#81. If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people."
"And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.
Sherwood Smith
#82. I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer.
John Logan
#83. In truth, she hadn't put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don't really need to ask themselves if they are happy or not, do they? They just are happy, she thinks.
Gabrielle Zevin
#85. Nothing funny about happy people. I don't know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of pick up the areas of conflict and delve in there, because that's where the most story is. If someone's happily married for 20 years, that's great, but it's not that funny.
Kate Beaton
#86. Happy people are not people without problems; they are people who face their problems and at some point make a decision to move past them.
Will Bowen
#87. Good things don't happen to "good people"; good things happen to happy people.
Vivian Amis
#88. The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.
Imelda Marcos
#89. Valued. Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities. Right
Hanya Yanagihara
#90. Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.
Marc Maron
#91. I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.
David Cross
#92. Genuinely happy people do not just sit around being content. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings.
Dan Buettner
#94. I do try to say, God's will be done, sir," said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; "but it's harder to be resigned than happy people think.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#95. Research shows that happy people look for opportunity while others see only crises. Surrendering fear is healthy!
Judith Orloff
#96. Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.
Gretchen Rubin
#97. If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
Victor Cousin
#98. There are people who do, what we would call, lower sorcery. It is best not to be concerned with them. They are not happy people and they can't be a problem if you are aware of what they are doing.
Frederick Lenz
#99. Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.
Martin Seligman
#100. I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.
Patrick DeWitt
