Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Bono, Edward De

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Aristotle

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

10.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

11.

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

12.

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

David Assael

13.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

17.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

18.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

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

William Cowper

21.

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

22.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

23.

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

24.

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

25.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

26.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

27.

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

Smith, Adam

28.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

29.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

30.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

31.

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

32.

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

33.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

34.

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

35.

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

36.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

37.

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

38.

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

Oprah Winfrey

39.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

40.

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

41.

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

42.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

44.

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

45.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

46.

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

47.

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

48.

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

Josh Billings

49.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

50.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.