Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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

Rohn, Jim

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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.

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Bob Newhart

12.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

13.

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

14.

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

15.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

16.

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

17.

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

19.

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

21.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

24.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

28.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

29.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

30.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

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

33.

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

34.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

35.

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

36.

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

Jeans, Sir James

37.

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

Proverb, Scottish

38.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

39.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

40.

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

Stossel, John

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Cloete, Stuart

44.

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

45.

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

46.

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

48.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

49.

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

50.

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

Maurier, Daphne Du