Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lucian

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

11.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

12.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

13.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

14.

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

15.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

17.

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

George Burns

18.

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

19.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

20.

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

21.

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

Epicurus

22.

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

23.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

24.

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

25.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

28.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

29.

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

30.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

31.

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

32.

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

Ann Radcliffe

33.

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.

34.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

35.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

36.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

37.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

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

39.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

40.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

41.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

43.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

44.

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

Dyer, Wayne

45.

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

Rohn, Jim

46.

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

47.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

48.

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

49.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

50.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand