Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Cloete, Stuart

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Thomas Szasz

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.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Camus, Albert

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

10.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

11.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

12.

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

Lucian

13.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

14.

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

15.

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

Bob Newhart

16.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

17.

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

18.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

19.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

21.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

24.

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

Christopher Morley

25.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

26.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

27.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

28.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

30.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

31.

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

32.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

34.

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

35.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

36.

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

37.

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

38.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

39.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

40.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

41.

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

42.

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

43.

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

Kennedy, John F.

44.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

45.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

46.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

47.

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

Prutz

48.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

49.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

50.

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.