Top 200 Happiness Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

— Confucius

52. “One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.”

— Shawn Achor

53. “Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.”

— Shawn Achor

54. “You’re happy when you help others become happy.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

55. “A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

56. “Happiness inspires productivity.”

— Shawn Achor

57. “What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

58. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”

— Michael Jordan

59. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

60. “When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.”

— Byron Katie

61. “Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

62. “The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

63. “Happiness is the precursor to success.”

— Shawn Achor

64. “One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”

— Gretchen Rubin

65. “Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.”

— Gretchen Rubin

66. “We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.”

— Shawn Achor

67. “We are happy when we are growing.”

— Gretchen Rubin

68. “Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.”

— Shawn Achor

69. “What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.”

— Byron Katie

70. “Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.”

— Shawn Achor

71. “Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they’re successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn’t work.”

— Shawn Achor

72. “I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

73. “Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.”

— Shawn Achor

74. “Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it’s the realization that we can.”

— Shawn Achor

75. “Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.”

— Nhat Hanh

76. “Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

77. “Happiness is a decision, not an experience. You can decide to be happy without what you thought you needed in order to be happy, and you will be. Your experience is the result of your decision, not the cause of it.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

78. “Life is going by. Don’t waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.”

— Joel Osteen

79. “Happiness is man’s greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.”

— Epicurus

80. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

81. “It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

82. “Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.”

— Shawn Achor

83. “Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

84. “Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.”

— Shawn Achor

85. “The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”

— Swami Vivekananda

86. “The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.”

— Shawn Achor

87. “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”

— Mother Teresa

88. “The noblest art is that of making others happy.”

— P.T. Barnum

89. “A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

90. “Attitude is everything, so pick a good one.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

91. “Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

92. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

— Dale Carnegie

93. “Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.”

— Buddha

94. “The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential.”

— Shawn Achor

95. “Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

96. “We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.”

— Shawn Achor

97. “Each one of us is like that butterfly the Butterfly Effect. And each tiny move toward a more positive mindset can send ripples of positivity through our organizations our families and our communities.”

— Shawn Achor

98. “Waiting to be happy limits our brain’s potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.”

— Shawn Achor

99. “It’s hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.”

— Shawn Achor

100. “Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.”

— Dalai Lama XIV