Top 100 The Greatest Happiness Quotes
#1. You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be.
A.D. Posey
#2. 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
#3. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
#4. 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
#5. The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame De Stael
#6. The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham
#7. The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
Walter Annenberg
#8. The greatest happiness [ ... ] is to sneeze when you want to.
L.M. Montgomery
#9. 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
#11. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William, Saroyan
#12. 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
#14. The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.
Lester Levenson
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Francis Hutcheson
#18. Happiness, ... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.
Josef Pieper
#19. The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
William Dean Howells
#20. The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.
Orhan Pamuk
#21. The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
#25. Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato
#26. 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
#27. Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
Sigmund Freud
#28. 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
#29. There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness
Leo Tolstoy
#30. The greatest happiness is seeing the people you love happy.
Marty Rubin
#31. 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
#32. The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
Luther Burbank
#33. The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.
Peter Koestenbaum
#34. 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.
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Know that the happiness we feel when we bring joy to others is the greatest happiness in the world.
Mokichi Okada
#40. 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
#41. 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
#43. 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
#45. The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or moreover, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
#46. 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
#47. The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
#48. 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
#49. So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#53. The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Epictetus
#54. A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others
Phil Harding
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.
Marvin J. Ashton
#58. 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
#59. The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
Agatha Christie
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. If anyone hurts you, love him; it is the greatest revenge.
Debasish Mridha
#64. 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
#66. Life is a mission but death is the greatest adventure.
Debasish Mridha
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#72. 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
#73. The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.
Brian Tracy
#74. If you walk in any direction walk in the direction toward your greatest dream.
Shannon L. Alder
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#78. 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
#79. Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion.
Allan Lokos
#80. Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
Bertrand Russell
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#86. 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
#87. Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
David O. McKay
#88. Life gives us the greatest opportunity to serve and be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#89. The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.
Steve Maraboli
#90. Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Ray Lyman Wilbur
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Love is the greatest gift that you can give to humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#94. 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
#95. Acknowledge the present moment. It is the greatest present in your life.
Debasish Mridha
#96. Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you happy or miserable
Shane Eric Mathias
#97. 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
#98. Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.
Mario Stinger
#99. 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
#100. 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
