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Quotes About Happiness

The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life's work.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
~ Eve Ensler
Most people want to make maximum money for minimum work, and that does not result in a happy life. Work does not become an active force to advance your awareness into higher states.
~ Frederick Lenz
Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.
~ Frederick Lenz
Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.
~ Frederick Lenz
I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
Focus on quality of life, and enjoy a life worth living. Researchers have said that only 4% of people enjoy both their work and their personal life.
~ Unknown
Do what makes you happy. Keep it simple. Do the research. Work hard. Look ahead.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.
~ George Carlin
I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.
~ George Clooney
Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.
~ Gretchen Rubin
To love your family, love your work, live your purpose and be unconditionally grateful for every moment of your life... is to succeed at the highest level (in my opinion).
~ Hal Elrod
When I'm working 16-hour days and I can't work out, I get angry very easily. It's because I'm missing all those good endorphins. For me, exercise equals happiness.
~ Heather Morris
My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.
~ Helen Keller
I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.
~ Helen Thomas
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.
~ Honore de Balzac
I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don't have to work extremely hard doing what I hate.
~ Hugh Jackman
Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
~ Ian Hart
Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.
~ Isaac Bickerstaffe
In the broader sense, work is the means to achieve happiness, prosperity. and salvation. When work and duty and joy are commingled, then man is at his best.
~ J. Richard Clarke
Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.
~ James Patterson
I'm just so happy and I'm grateful for my fans. I just hope I keep doing work that they love.
~ Jennifer Aniston
For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.
~ Jenny Offill
For me, it's just eat whatever makes you feel good. Work out whenever you want to. Just take care of yourself.
~ Jessica Simpson