Motivational Quotes

Happiness

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

2.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

3.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

4.

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

5.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

6.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

7.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

8.

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

Buchan, John

9.

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

10.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

11.

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

12.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

13.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

14.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

15.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

16.

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.

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

18.

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

19.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

20.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

21.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

22.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

23.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

24.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

25.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

26.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

27.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

29.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

30.

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

31.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

32.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

34.

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

35.

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

36.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

37.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

38.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

39.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

40.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

41.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

43.

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

44.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

45.

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

46.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

47.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

48.

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

49.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

50.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander