Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

- Kindleberger, J.

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

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

2.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

3.

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

Nielsen, A.

4.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

5.

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

6.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

7.

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

Ketchel, Holly

8.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

9.

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

Ayn Rand

10.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

11.

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

12.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

13.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

14.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

15.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

16.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

17.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

18.

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

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

20.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

21.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

22.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

The laws of Manu

26.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

27.

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

28.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

29.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

30.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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

Lao-Tzu

32.

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

33.

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

Smith, Adam

34.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

35.

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

Oprah Winfrey

36.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

37.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

38.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

39.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

40.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

41.

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

Kin Hubbard

42.

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

Camus, Albert

43.

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

Greene, Graham

44.

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

45.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

46.

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

Boone, Daniel

47.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

48.

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.

49.

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