Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

2.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

3.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

4.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

5.

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

Maxwell, William

6.

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

7.

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

8.

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

Mason, John L.

9.

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

Benjamin Franklin

10.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

11.

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

Ketchel, Holly

12.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

13.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

16.

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

17.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

18.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

19.

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

Epicurus

20.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

21.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

22.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

23.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

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

Robert Frost

25.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

26.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

27.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

28.

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

Herold, Don

29.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

30.

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

31.

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

Upanishads, Veda

32.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

33.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

34.

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

36.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

37.

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

38.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

39.

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

Roy M. Goodman

40.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

41.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

42.

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''

43.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

44.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

45.

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

Oprah Winfrey

46.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

47.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

48.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

49.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

50.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates