The Happiest People I Know Quotes

#1. The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

Harold S. Kushner

#2. The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest 'weaknesses'; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

Robert Baden-Powell

#3. I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

Richard Marx

#4. The happiest people I know are not those who find their golden ticket; they are those who, while in pursuit of worthy goals, discover and treasure the beauty and sweetness of the everyday moments.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#5. Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#6. The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working.

George Burns

#7. Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others ... By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#8. I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.

Debra Winger

#9. The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.

David Jeremiah

#10. I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know.

Hope Davis

#11. People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.

Mike Rowe

#12. Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.

Zig Ziglar

#13. The happiest people I know live lives that revolve around serving others, not themselves.

Tim Elmore

#14. The happiest people I know are separated followers of Jesus Christ.
They are not dependent on artificial stimulants. They do not resort to sick, dirty jokes. They do not abuse their bodies to relax their minds.

Billy Graham

#15. Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people
that's in your hands.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

Harold S. Kushner

#17. Whenever someone acts one way in public - goes overboard, if you know what i mean - it'll turn out they have an opposite side. The quietest person will have the worst temper. The happiest person will suffer the worst depressions. The best thing about a person is the worst thing.

Ethan Black

#18. I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.

Elizabeth Montagu

#19. When I think about it, the happiest, most successful, most fulfilled people I know are the ones who, over time, gave themselves the most permissions - in all areas of their lives. Guided

Sandford Lyne

#20. Happiness is hard because it's very subjective. I know the people that seem happiest to me, but whether they are actually - what they're really like inside is really hard to say.

Gretchen Rubin

#21. The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

Drew Houston

#22. You can be the happiest you can be in a relationship but can have an urge to be with someone else. I know a lot of people that it has happened to.

Ellie Goulding

#23. The happiest Christian homes I know are those given to hospitality, where neighbors feel at home, where young people are welcome, where the elderly are respected, where children are loved.

Billy Graham

#24. You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

Gil Scott-Heron

#25. The happiest people on Earth are the ones who know love.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#26. We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

George H. W. Bush