Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

- King, Coretta Scott

Best Quotes about Happiness

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

12.

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

13.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

17.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

18.

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

Cloete, Stuart

19.

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

Hesse, Hermann

20.

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

Lao-Tzu

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Proust, Marcel

23.

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

Addison, Joseph

24.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

25.

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

26.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

27.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

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

Proverb, Scottish

29.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

30.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

31.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

32.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

33.

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

34.

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

Carnegie, Dale

35.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

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

Oprah Winfrey

37.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

38.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Democritus

41.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

43.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

44.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

46.

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

Stein, Ben

47.

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

48.

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

49.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Epicurus