Top 265 Happier Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Happier Quotes from famous people such as Geoff Mulgan, Joyce Meyer, Trey Anastasio, Per Petterson, Gail Carson Levine, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

For most of human history, the main goal of states has

For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at others’ expense. Then in recent decades it was all about GDP. It’s only in very recent history that rulers have been willing to commit themselves to helping their citizens live happier lives.
Geoff Mulgan
God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.
Joyce Meyer
Things don’t go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you’re gonna be.
Trey Anastasio
To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don’t think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else’s. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.
Per Petterson
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn’t like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
Gail Carson Levine
I’m excited to help people get healthier and be happier with eTone Fitness. It’s been a lifesaver. I’m able to get my sweat on, have a live coach train me and get results from home. Not a gimmick, it works!
Perez Hilton
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
Jonathan Sacks
Actors love… at the end of the day, stars are actors. They love performing. And the more challenges I feel that you end up giving stars on the sets, the happier they are.
Vikramaditya Motwane
The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.
Rei Kawakubo
I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.
Brandon Jenner
I was a Shawn Michaels fan, so that’s a sad memory for me. I’m proud to add a happier memory in that building, even though Christopher Daniels also lost his smile.
Cody Rhodes
I’m never happier than in the bed.
Jason Bateman
I love people and care about them, and I felt I had a gift to cheer people up. If I could get into their homes and make their environment more attractive, they’ll be happier, and it would be very rewarding for me.
Alexandra Stoddard
I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!
Martin McDonagh
I often wonder, with my hand on my heart, if ‘The Dying Hours’ was made into the biggest movie franchise in history, would I pick up my pen again? Wouldn’t I be happier spending the rest of my life travelling around with my wife?
Mark Billingham
Still, I love a campaign. I’m never happier than when I’m fighting shoulder to shoulder with our growing army of foot soldiers.
Jess Phillips
The darker and the sadder the song, the happier it makes me feel. It’s just this, ah. I’m in the moment. I’m part of this beautiful world, and it’s fantastic, and I don’t really know how else to describe it.
Sarah McLachlan
It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they’re physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.
Robert J. Waldinger
You’re going to be way happier doing what you actually love and finding other people that love the same thing than doing something that other people love so you’re just cooler and you have cool friends.
Afrojack
For 60 years, I was the most controversial figure in the country, and suddenly, I’m the most popular man in the land. Truth be told, I don’t know when I was happier: then or now.
Shimon Peres
My son does enjoy my action films. But the women in my family would be happier if I did socially relevant films.
Suniel Shetty
I’m not happier because I’m starting on the Knicks. I could be starting, I could be coming off of the bench, and I’d be the same way.
Jose Calderon
You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I’ve been trying to do that. It’s really made a major difference for me. I’m a happier person.
Tracy Chapman
I go for a 20-minute jog every day. I find I am much happier when I exercise. Running helps me debrief and work out my plan for the day.
Samara Weaving
I’m a believer that the more I’m giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.
Janelle Monae
I’m a big believer in to-do lists. I think of five things in the shower. I set goals and get my work done, but I have to plan for fun things, too. I’m always thinking about what will make my family happier. So I set up playdates and trips.
Heidi Klum
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They’re often much happier, because they don’t go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
Mary Wesley
Whether you are a man or a woman, when you’re loved, you look good and are happier.
Jessica Jung
Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.
Pamela Druckerman
The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier lives. Not to be kind of immortal – that’s not what I’m talking about.
Bill Maris
But doing ‘Parenthood,’ I’ve never ever been happier in 35 years. I drive to work and I drive home. I’m like a factory worker and that is in my DNA. I love having a steady job with the same people. It’s made me so much calmer and more content. Now I just hope the series goes on for 15 years.
Dax Shepard
There will come a time when the human race and super in

There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life.
Masayoshi Son
When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film’s success would.
Rakul Preet Singh
You’ve got to get your head right about ageing. Taking care of diet and exercise and facing your fears about growing older will lead you into a happier place emotionally and mentally. You feel like you have a choice.
Kate Garraway
I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don’t know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
Isabel Allende
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch Spinoza
When most people are unhappy customers, they get mad; I try to get rich. All of my businesses started the same way: I got rich by improving the world and making a lot of people happier in the process.
Paul Zane Pilzer
I’m a much more successful and happier person sober. And I’m nicer to be around.
Boy George
I think there’s nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something.
Lee Radziwill
If more women ate, they would be a lot happier. Let me tell you, I am a lot grumpier when I don’t eat.
Octavia Spencer
If you are ever wondering, ‘If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?’ you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they’re the most physically insecure women on the planet.
Cameron Russell
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Pythagoras
I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It’s like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.
Jain
Low-cost gear can make restless people like myself feel marginally happier.
Alissa Quart
The research says that being successful doesn’t automatically make you happier, but being happier – being more positive – makes you more successful.
Shawn Achor
The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.
Tanya Tucker
I would love for the world to be happier.
Ellen DeGeneres
Medication can help us live a happier life.
Carnie Wilson
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful – just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
Ben Stein
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan
Owners sometimes think their dogs have already suffered so much that they couldn’t possibly inflict any more criticism. Yet it’s that very firm, effective training that would make those dogs happier and more secure.
Jon Katz
All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I’m happier now than I’ve ever been but I still wish I had that money.
Dana Plato
I think the more diversity that one has in his life, the happier he can be, as long as he is able to do whatever he chooses to do at that given time well.
Steven Seagal
What I found was, when I took care of my body, my mind and my emotions and my heart were way happier.
Noah Centineo
Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.
George Weinberg
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.
Paul Theroux
Being back with Impact wrestling, I couldn’t be happier for those guys, but from a professional and business side, it energises me so much to find the next AJ Styles, the next Bobby Roode, the next Samoa Joe.
Jeff Jarrett