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Quotes About Happiness

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness.
~ Nick Saban
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
~ Rafael Nadal
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
~ Maxim Gorky
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
~ Tom Petty
I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.
~ Ian Curtis
I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
~ Bertrand Russell
It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?
~ B. J. Palmer
I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you'll have some of the best times of your life.
~ Big Sean
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
~ Theodore Isaac Rubin
When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.
~ Cyndi Lauper
By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
~ George Westinghouse
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
~ Abhishek Bachchan
Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.
~ Soichiro Honda
Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ?
~ Everett Ruess
Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.
~ Johannes Itten
The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.
~ Graham Hill
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
~ Jennifer Garner
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
~ George Santayana
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
~ Oprah Winfrey