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Wise Quotes About Happiness

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
David Lee Roth

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter Drucker

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire

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

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William Feather

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