Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

2.

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

3.

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

Mill, John Stuart

4.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

5.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

6.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

7.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

8.

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

9.

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

Jonathan Haidt

10.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

11.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

12.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

13.

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

14.

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

15.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

17.

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

18.

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

Nicole Kidman

19.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

20.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

21.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

22.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

23.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

24.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

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

Jean Houston

26.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

27.

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

Robert Frost

28.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

29.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

32.

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

Goodman, Roy

33.

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

34.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

35.

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

36.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

38.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

39.

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

40.

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

Oprah Winfrey

41.

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

Christopher Morley

42.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

43.

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

Anderson, Greg

44.

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.

45.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

46.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

47.

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.

48.

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

49.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

50.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May