Motivational Quotes

Happiness

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

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

2.

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

3.

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

Mill, John Stuart

4.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

5.

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

Epictetus

6.

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

7.

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

Wilde, Oscar

8.

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

9.

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

Addison, Joseph

10.

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

11.

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

12.

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

Heywood, John

13.

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

14.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

16.

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

Proust, Marcel

17.

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

19.

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

20.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

21.

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

Al Batt

22.

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''

23.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

24.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

25.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

26.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

27.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

28.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

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

Christopher Morley

30.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

31.

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

32.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

33.

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

Nielsen, A.

34.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

35.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

36.

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

37.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

38.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

39.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

41.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

42.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

43.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

44.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

45.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

46.

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

47.

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

Epicurus

48.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

50.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.