Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

- Mason, John L.

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

2.

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

Hesse, Hermann

3.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

7.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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.

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

10.

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

Epicurus

11.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

12.

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

13.

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

14.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

15.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

16.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

17.

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

18.

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

Ann Radcliffe

19.

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

20.

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

21.

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

Chambers, Oswald

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

25.

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

27.

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

Jonathan Haidt

28.

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

29.

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

30.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

31.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

33.

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

34.

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Ketchel, Holly

36.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

37.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

38.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

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

Stein, Ben

40.

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

41.

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

42.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

43.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

44.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

45.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

47.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

48.

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

Camus, Albert

49.

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

50.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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