Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Happiness

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

2.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

3.

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

4.

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

Stossel, John

5.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

6.

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

7.

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

8.

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

Anderson, Greg

9.

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

Alda, Alan

10.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

11.

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

Maxwell, William

12.

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

13.

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

Ketchel, Holly

14.

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

15.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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.

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

19.

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

20.

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

21.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

22.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

23.

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

Goodman, Roy

24.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

25.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

26.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

28.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

29.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

30.

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

31.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

33.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

34.

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

James Oppenheim

35.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

36.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

38.

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

39.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

40.

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

41.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

42.

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

Oprah Winfrey

43.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

44.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

45.

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

Boone, Daniel

46.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

47.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

48.

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

49.

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

Ann Radcliffe

50.

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