Top 100 If You Want Happiness Quotes
#1. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Confucius
#2. If you want to get wealth, focus on wealth. If you want happiness, focus on happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
Russell Simmons
#4. Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match ... If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap, but if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
Larry Lucchino
#5. The formula is simple enough. If you want more headaches and misery in your life, keep complaining, they're on the way. If you want happiness and joy, give your attention to the things you are grateful for, and then sit back and watch them grow.
D.S. Luca
#6. If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.
Dale Carnegie
#7. You've got two witnesses here. Happiness is a wholeness issue. If you want to be happy, you need to be whole. If you want to be married, you simply need a mate. If you want to be happily married, you need to be a whole person married to another whole person.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#8. If You Want To Learn About LOVE,Happiness And Joy, Please Go To Your Childhood and Learn.
Sushil Singh
#9. God says only one thing if you want to have attachment towards worldly life; go ahead and get attached to it; or else, get attached to Me. If you get attached to Me, you will get permanent happiness and if you get attached to the worldly life, you will not find contentment!
Dada Bhagwan
#10. Great Benefactor! How absurd- to want pain! Can there be anyone who doesn't know that pain is a negative quality, and that if you add them up it reduces the sum we call happiness? so it follows ...
But ... nothing follows. The slate is clean. Naked.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#11. One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute whazzaam, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like What's it all about, when you get right down to it?
Terry Pratchett
#12. Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it.
Ilona Andrews
#13. If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
Elbert Hubbard
#14. If you want drama, settle for the one who will change your relationship status. If you want love, wait for the one who will change your life.
Steve Maraboli
#15. They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.
Jeff Lindsay
#16. If you want to be, if you want to see, let us read a lot, then we will have a shot!
Debasish Mridha
#17. If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people.
Michael Buckley
#19. You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.
Jay Asher
#20. Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.
Max Lucado
#21. If you want to speak to someone you cannot touch, see, or hear, the voice of love will transmit with or without a phone. It crosses all borders and travels through time and walls.
Julieanne O'Connor
#22. If you want to feel more comfortable and happy, work on making the people around you more comfortable and happy.
Kathy Freston
#23. If you want to get more, appreciate and express heartfelt gratitude for what you have.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power and depth, praise these qualities. Praise them daily. A number of times.
David Deida
#25. If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.
Paulo Coelho
#26. If you want to find a reason to smile, to find a reason to be happy, learn to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you.
Lionel Suggs
#27. The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it.
Chris Prentiss
#30. If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.
Goswami Kriyananda
#31. If you want to improve your life and live with all that you deserve, you must run your own race. It doesn't matter what other people say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself, being comfortable in your own skin. Be true to you. That's a key source of happiness.
Robin S. Sharma
#32. I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
Iggy Azalea
#33. If you want to be healthy study health ... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth ... if you want to be happy, study happiness.
Jim Rohn
#34. Don't let this anger ruin your life any more than it already has. If you want to every achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.
Kien Nguyen
#35. The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.
Yvon Chouinard
#36. 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 L. Roberts
#37. If you want health, wealth and happiness, the first step is to throw away your alarm clocks!
Tom Hodgkinson
#39. To achieve authentic, sustained happiness, above all else you need to be in charge of your life, to be in control of who you want to be, and be able to make the appropriate changes if you are not.
Michael Booth
#40. You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.
Frederick Lenz
#41. People want to be happy, so they don't want to feel as though they're mired in this world of ugliness. I think that if people can recognize that you can actually help and change that ugliness, then you'll feel a lot better about yourself as well, and that does create a certain amount of happiness.
Sheryl WuDunn
#42. If you want something better for your life, you've got to start by believing you deserve it.
Sheryl Sorrentino
#43. Happiness is not about... who you are, where you are, what you have... or what you are doing. It is what you think about it. If you think your life is already enough, and that's enough. But if you want something out of your reach, then you will never be satisfied all the time.
Yuli Pritania
#44. Today is the day to stop, look around, realize where you are in relation to where you want to be, change direction if needed and move forward with faith in God and in yourself.
Toni Sorenson
#45. You cannot be healthy and happy without discipline. If you want to measure the level of happiness in your life, just measure the level of discipline in your life. You will never have more happiness than you have discipline.
Matthew Kelly
#46. If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
Ezra Taft Benson
#47. If you want to be really beautiful, adorn yourself with a smile.
Debasish Mridha
#49. If you want to make others happy, show your gratitude. If you want to be happy, express unconditional love in your attitude.
Debasish Mridha
#50. I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.
Brittany Murphy
#51. When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.
David Lynch
#52. If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value.
Tony Meloto
#54. It all comes down to this:
If you want one year of happiness, grow grain
If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees
If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people
Harvey MacKay
#55. Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come
Mitch Albom
#56. You can be someone's friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional and physical well-being more than you want to fuck them. If you cross that line and want sex more than their happiness, then you aren't their friend.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#57. If you want to be great, see greatness in others and appreciate it with your whole heart.
Debasish Mridha
#58. If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health - you must use it or lose it!
Ernie J Zelinski
#59. You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.
Euripides
#60. If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.
Kate DiCamillo
#61. If you want to change someone's life, just love him and be kind to him.
Debasish Mridha
#62. If God told you exactly what it was you were to do, you would be happy doing it no matter what it was. What you're doing is what God wants you to do. Be happy.
Werner Erhard
#63. Saying you just want your kid to be happy puts enormous pressure on the child. They feel if they're not happy, they're failing. Periods of unhappiness are okay and our kids need to know that; it's the struggle that makes you who you are.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
#64. Infinite altruism is the basis of peace and happiness. If you want altruism, you must control hate and you must practice patience. The main teachers of patience are our enemies.
Dalai Lama
#65. You're impatient for your life to start lifting you up and making you happier. You have that backwards: if you want a happier life, you have to make it happen. It's not called YOUR life for nothing! - Charmainism
Charmaine Smith Ladd
#67. I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!
Sharon Swan
#68. There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
B.B. King
#69. If you want to find greater happiness and fulfillment in your life, you must begin to understand and live in harmony with the law of attraction.
Jack Canfield
#70. If you are happy, happiness will come to you because happiness wants to go where happiness is.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#71. CHANGE: Don't just talk about it, go out there and do it. Don't just meditate about it, go out there and create it. Don't just pray about it go out there and take action; participate in the answering of your own prayer. If you want change, get out there and live it. - Steve Maraboli
Steve Maraboli
#72. If you want more joy in your daily life, smile at the people you meet in the street, the woman sitting beside you on the bus or standing next to you in the queue at the airport, the waiter who brings your food, your colleagues or your employer. There's a great chance they'll smile back.
Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir
#73. I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.
Toni Morrison
#74. If you want a positive and happy life then stop feeling self-pity or seeking attention for your problems and take action towards creating a positive and fulfilling life.
Hina Hashmi
#75. I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me.
S.J. Watson
#76. If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#77. If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.
Roy Bennett
#78. There would be a lot less broken hearts when a relationship fails, if people would understand there's no reason to want someone that doesn't want you. Never allow yourself to feel half empty, when you deserve a relationship that will fill your heart with happiness.
Ron Baratono
#82. If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'
Richard Bach
#83. I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it.
Shahid Kapoor
#84. You're supposed to say, 'All I want is your happiness. I'll do whatever it takes, even if it means being without you.'"
"Sorry," Noah said. "I'm just not that big of a person.
Michelle Hodkin
#85. In life, if you want to be happy, choose to be optimistic.
Lionel Suggs
#86. The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don't commit to being happy at work, you won't be. You won't make the choices that make you happy. You won't take the actions needed to get there. You won't change the things that need to change.
Alexander Kjerulf
#87. Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.
Goswami Kriyananda
#88. You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.
Deborah Day
#89. My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.
Katy Perry
#90. And it's often in those battles that we are most alive: it's on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work. If you want to win any meaningful kind of victory, you'll have to fight for it.
Eric Greitens
#91. If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#92. If you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !
Dale Carnegie
#93. Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.
Emily Oster
#94. My child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life ... 2 things you need ... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.
Carlos Barrios
#95. I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix or prevent many of life's difficulties
or even better, create happiness and well-being for both myself and others. I can do this, and so can you ... if you really want to.
Silver RavenWolf
#96. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama XIV
#97. It's easy to make the mistake of thinking that if you have something you love or there's something you want, you'll be happier with more.
Gretchen Rubin
#98. If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it.
Temitope Owosela
#99. Always strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#100. I have trouble asking for what I want, especially when it comes to men."
"If you don't ask for what you want, how do you get it?" Felicia asked. "If you're relying on him guessing, you're sabotaging your own happiness.
Susan Mallery
