Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

2.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

4.

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

5.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

6.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

7.

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

8.

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

9.

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

Proverb, Spanish

10.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

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

James Oppenheim

12.

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

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

Fountain., John

15.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

16.

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

Epicurus

17.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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.

21.

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

Bradley, Amanda

22.

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

23.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

24.

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

25.

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

26.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

Lao-Tzu

29.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

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

31.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

32.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

33.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

34.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

35.

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

Stein, Ben

36.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

37.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Epictetus

39.

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

40.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

41.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

42.

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

43.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

44.

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

Christopher Morley

45.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

46.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.