True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

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

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life and that happiness not pain or mindless self-indulgence is the proof of your moral integrity since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done the zest of creating things new.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Be happy with what you have and are be generous with both and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony.

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.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.