Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Happiness

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Christopher Morley

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Jean Houston

10.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

11.

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

12.

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

13.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

14.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

15.

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

Ketchel, Holly

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

18.

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

19.

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

Prevert, Jacques

20.

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

21.

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

Anderson, Greg

22.

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

23.

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

24.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

25.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

26.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

27.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

28.

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

29.

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

Hoffer, Eric

30.

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

31.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

32.

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

33.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

35.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

36.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

37.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

38.

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

39.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

40.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

41.

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

42.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

43.

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

44.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

45.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

46.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

47.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

48.

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

Stossel, John

49.

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)

50.

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett