Mobsea Logo
Home

Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.
- Marden, Orison Swett
Happiness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.
Binstock, Louis

2.
The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.
Jeans, Sir James

3.
Happiness lies first of all in health.
Curtis, George William

4.
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
Hazlitt, William

5.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Carlyle, Thomas

6.
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Aristotle

7.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Proust, Marcel

8.
A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Lincoln, Abraham

9.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Jefferson, Thomas

10.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand

11.
Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
Cloete, Stuart

12.
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.
Prazlin, Duchess

13.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Schachtel, Rabbi H.

14.
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

15.
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Meredith, Owen

16.
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.
J.K. Rowling

17.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

18.
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

19.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Levenson, Samuel

20.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Saroyan, William

21.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus

22.
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

23.
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Rubinstein, Arthur

24.
Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.
David Assael

25.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Russell, Bertrand

26.
If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

27.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Angelis, Barbara De

28.
The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.
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

30.
The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.
Garrison, Theodosia

31.
People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.
Zimbler, Adam

32.
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

33.
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Muller, Max

34.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

35.
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

36.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Proverb, Chinese

37.
Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.
Bierce, Ambrose

38.
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

39.
If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.
Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

40.
If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.
Prutz

41.
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.
Harrigan, John

42.
Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.
Peterson, Wilferd A.

43.
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

44.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

45.
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

46.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

47.
Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

48.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
Knuth, Don

49.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace

50.
IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.
Laura Moncur


Daily Inspirational Quotes on

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by Motivational Quotes.
Quotes on Ability
Achievement
Acting and actors
Action
Adversity
Quotes on Advertising
Advice
Age
Age and aging
Alcohol and alcoholism
Quotes on Ambition
America
Anger
Animals
Appearance
Quotes on Argument
Art
Atheism
Attitude
Beauty
Quotes on Belief
Body
Books
Books - reading
Bores and boredom
Quotes on Business
Change
Character
Charity
Children
Quotes on Choice
Christians and christianity
Churches
Civilization
Colleges and universities
Quotes on Commitment
Common sense
Communication
Communism and socialism
Competition
Quotes on Complaints and complaining
Computers
Concentration
Confidence
Conflict
Quotes on Contentment
Control
Conversation
Cooperation
Courage
Quotes on Creativity
Crime and criminals
Criticism
Culture
Death
Quotes on Education
Effort
Enemies
Enthusiasm
Equality
Quotes on Evil
Evolution
Example
Excellence
Expectation
Quotes on Experience
Facts
Failure
Faith
Fame
Quotes on Family
Fashion
Fate
Fear
Feminism
Quotes on Fiction
Focus
Food
Food and eating
Fools and foolishness
Quotes on Forgiveness
Freedom
Friends and friendship
Friendship
Genius
Quotes on Giving
Goals
God
Goodness
Gossip
Quotes on Government
Gratitude
Greatness
Grief
Growth
Quotes on Habit
Happiness
Hatred
Health
Heaven
Quotes on Heroes and heroism
History and historians
Hollywood
Home
Honesty
Quotes on Honor
Hope
Humankind
Humility
Humor
Quotes on Ideas
Ignorance
Imagination
Individuality
Integrity
Quotes on Intelligence and intellectuals
Jesus christ
Journalism and journalists
Joy
Judgment and judges
Quotes on Justice
Kindness
Knowledge
Language
Laughter
Quotes on Law and lawyers
Laziness
Leadership
Learning
Liberty
Quotes on Lies and lying
Life
Listening
Literature
Loneliness
Quotes on Losers and losing
Love
Luck
Management
Manners
Quotes on Marriage
Media
Medicine
Memory
Men
Quotes on Mind
Mistakes
Money
Morality
Mothers
Quotes on Motivation
Music
Nations
Nature
Obstacles
Quotes on Opinions
Opportunity
Optimism
Pain
Parents and parenting
Quotes on Passion
Past
Patience
Patriotism
Peace
Quotes on People
Perfection
Perseverance
Persuasion
Philosophers and philosophy
Quotes on Photography
Planning
Pleasure
Poetry and poets
Politics
Quotes on Possibilities
Potential
Poverty and the poor
Power
Praise
Quotes on Prayer
Prejudice
Present
Pride
Problems
Quotes on Procrastination
Progress
Proverbs
Purpose
Quotations
Quotes on Reality
Reason
Relationship
Religion
Reputation
Quotes on Respectability
Responsibility
Riches
Risk
Science
Quotes on Secrets
Security
Self-esteem
Service
Silence
Quotes on Simplicity
Sin
Sleep
Society
Solitude
Quotes on Speakers and speaking
Speech
Spirituality
Success
Suffering
Quotes on Talent
Taxes and taxation
Teacher
The future
Theater
Quotes on Things and little things
Thoughts and thinking
Time
Travel
Trust
Quotes on Truth
Twentieth century
Understanding
Victory
Virtue
Quotes on Vision
War
Wealth
Winners and winning
Wisdom
Quotes on Wives
Women
Words
Work
World
Quotes on Worry
Writers and writing
Writing
Youth

Test your English Language
Ratan Tata
Festivals India
Wacky Ideas to attract your Partner
Benefits of Zucchinis
Annoying Habits You Should Avoid Doing in Public
What to Eat in Maharashtra
Worlds Biggest Islands
Precautions while using Garden Tools
Science Experiments Ideas
Most Amazing Roads
Best Names at the Sochi Olympics
Camera Action
Rules to play Petanque
Bill Gates
Celebration of Nag Panchami
Career Options After 10th
Career Options After Graduation
Carrer Success Tips