Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

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

Aristotle

2.

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

Buchan, John

3.

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

4.

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

Jean Houston

5.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

6.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

7.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

8.

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

Millman, Dan

9.

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

David Assael

10.

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

11.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

16.

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

17.

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

Diderot, Denis

18.

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

Robert Frost

19.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

20.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

21.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

23.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

24.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

26.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

27.

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

Stein, Ben

28.

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

Boone, Daniel

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

33.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

35.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

36.

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

Carnegie, Dale

37.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

38.

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

Smith, Adam

39.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

41.

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

James Oppenheim

42.

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

43.

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

Proverb, Scottish

44.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

45.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

46.

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

Kant, Immanuel

47.

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

Greene, Graham

48.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

49.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

50.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel