Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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)

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

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

Epicurus

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

10.

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

Christopher Morley

11.

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

Meredith, Owen

12.

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

John Berry

13.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

14.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

15.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

16.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

17.

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

18.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

19.

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

20.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

21.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

22.

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

23.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

25.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

26.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

27.

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

Ketchel, Holly

28.

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

Maxwell, William

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

Meltzer, Bernard

30.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

31.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

32.

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.

33.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

34.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

35.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

36.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

37.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

38.

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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''

42.

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

43.

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

44.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

45.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

46.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

47.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

49.

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle