Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Buchan, John

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Feather, William

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Storm Jameson

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

10.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

12.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

13.

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

14.

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

15.

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

Szasz, Thomas

16.

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

17.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

19.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

20.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

22.

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

23.

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

24.

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

25.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

26.

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

27.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

28.

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

29.

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

30.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

31.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

32.

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

33.

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

Proverb, Scottish

34.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

35.

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

36.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

37.

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

38.

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

39.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

40.

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

41.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

42.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

43.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

44.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

46.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

47.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

48.

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

49.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

50.

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle