Happy Quotes for Work or With Your Family
Happy quotes like these will help you reflect on how precious life is and the importance of enjoying every minute.
To live each day being cheerful and joyful is a blessing. If you’re on top of the world or jumping for joy, these sayings will reinforce that feeling.
Reading this collection will lift your spirits if you’re glum or down in the dumps. So, don’t worry; be happy!
Quotes About Being Happy
1.) To make this world joyful, let your heart overflow with joy.
Unknown
2.) Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.
Jean-Paul
3.) If you find some happiness inside yourself, you’ll start finding it in a lot of other places, too.
Gladiola Montana
4.) Joy is the highest expression of love.
Abraham-Hicks
5.) Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl Nightingale
6.) Be happy with what you have and are; be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.
William E. Gladstone
7.) The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Louisa May Alcott
True Happiness Quotes
8.) To buy a cake… to howl at the moon… to know true happiness… I am happy.
C. JoyBell C.
9.) Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
10.) A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation, is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
George Matthew Adams
11.) Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
12.) Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
13.) When you discover true happiness, you will find that you are wealthier beyond the dreams of kings.
Jeffrey Fry
14.) I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead; tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx
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Inspiring Happiness Quotes
15.) Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Valerie Bertinelli
16.) To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Mary Stuart
17.) Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle
18.) Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
19.) Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
Unknown
20.) Count your age by your friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
John Lennon
21.) Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu
22.) Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Choose To Be Happy
23.) Be positive. Stay happy, and don’t let the negativity of the world get you down.
Germany Kent
24.) I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.
Will Arnett
25.) A light heart can carry the most weight.
Marty Rubin
26.) There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.
George Sand
27.) I don’t let anyone’s insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that’s all that matters to me.
Demi Lovato
28.) Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
Meaning of Life Quotations
29.) Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
30.) Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.
Carrie Underwood
31.) You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.
William Rotsler
32.) Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
33.) The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
Robert Frost
34.) To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own – this is happiness.
J. B. Priestley
35.) The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Helen Keller
Cheerful Quotes
36.) The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
37.) Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
Henri Nouwen
38.) The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne
39.) Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison Swett Marden
40.) It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.
41.) Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of good looks.
Charles Dickens
42.) Life is too short for us to dwell on the sadness. Cheer up and live life to the fullest.
Dexter Monterde
43.) And so of cheerfulness or a good temper—the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
44.) Be of good cheer. The future is as bright as your faith.
Thomas Monson
45.) Be cheerful—the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.
Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational Happy Quotes for Work or With Your Family
46.) The happy-go-lucky have the best luck.
Marty Rubin
47.) If you’ve got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.
Melody Carstairs
48.) Enjoy the little things in life because one day, you`ll look back and realize they were the big things.
Kurt Vonnegut
49.) Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Mark Victor Hansen
50.) The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
51.) The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Marcel Pagnol
52.) Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
53.) No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Joyful Happy Quotes for Work or With Your Family
54.) You don’t have the power to make life fair, but you do have the power to make life joyful.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
55.) If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
56.) Now and then, it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire
57.) Happiness is a grateful spirit, an optimistic attitude, and a heart full of love.
Unknown
58.) Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
59.) A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
Mother Teresa
60.) Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy
61.) The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.
John O’Donohue
62.) A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
63.) When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Rumi
64.) The world is filled with nice people; if you can’t find one, be one.
Unknown
65.) Throw kindness around like confetti.
Unknown
66.) A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive.
Martha Beck
Positive Happy Quotes for Work or With Your Family
67.) Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Mary Lou Retton
68.) The most important thing is to enjoy your life– to be happy. It’s all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
69.) Happiness is not a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
70.) It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
71.) True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson
72.) The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
Best Happy Quotes
73.) Compassion is always the key If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
74.) It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.
Richard Branson
75.) You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
Joyce Meyer
76.) Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
Maharishi Mahesh
77.) Resolve to keep happy and your joy, and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
78.) Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
79.) Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
Good Happy Quotes
80.) If what you call happiness are the pleasurable feelings that you experience when things are going very well in your life, then you truly don’t know what true happiness is.
Edmond Mbiaka
81.) Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.
Dr. Seuss
82.) Choose Happy.
Unknown
83.) We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Thomas S. Monson
84.) And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
85.) Happiness is surrounding yourself only with those who bestow their unconditional love and support.
Ken Poirot
86.) Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things are. Joy is not necessarily what happens when things unfold according to our plans.
Marianne Williamson
87.) The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled.
William Blake
88.) You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
89.) True happiness is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
True Happiness Quotes
90.) True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done and the zest of creating new things.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
91.) We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that make the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
92.) True happiness is not found in people, places, or things. It is found in our own hearts.
Unknown
93.) For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
94.) I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself, for I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
95.) Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Martin Luther King Jr.
96.) The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu
No Worries Quote
97.) Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
98.) If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.
Dolly Parton
99.) Happiness is the best makeup.
Drew Barrymore
100.) Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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