Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

- Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

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

Lao-Tzu

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

10.

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

11.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

12.

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

13.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

15.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

16.

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

17.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

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.

19.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

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

Boone, Daniel

21.

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

22.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

23.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

25.

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

Russell, Bertrand

26.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

27.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

31.

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

Ann Radcliffe

32.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

33.

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

34.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

36.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

38.

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

Proust, Marcel

39.

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

40.

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''

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.