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.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Of course to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.