Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

- Alda, Alan

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

2.

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

3.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

4.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

5.

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

6.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

7.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

8.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

10.

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

11.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

14.

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

15.

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

17.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

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

Dalai Lama

19.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

20.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

21.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

23.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

24.

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

25.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

26.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

27.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

28.

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

29.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

30.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

31.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

32.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

33.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

34.

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

35.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

36.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

37.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

38.

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

Caron, Leslie

39.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

42.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

43.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

44.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

45.

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

47.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

48.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.