Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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

10.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

11.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

14.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

15.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

16.

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

Lucian

17.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

18.

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

19.

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

20.

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

21.

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

Diderot, Denis

22.

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

23.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

24.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

26.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

27.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

28.

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

29.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

31.

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

Storm Jameson

32.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Chuck Sigars

34.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

35.

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

36.

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

37.

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

38.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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

40.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

42.

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

43.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

44.

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

46.

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

47.

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

48.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

49.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

50.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz