Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Happiness

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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

2.

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

Wilde, Oscar

3.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

4.

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

Cloete, Stuart

5.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

6.

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

Nielsen, A.

7.

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

8.

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

9.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

10.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

11.

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

12.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

13.

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.

14.

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

William Cowper

15.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

16.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

17.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

18.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

19.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

20.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

21.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

22.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

23.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

24.

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

25.

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

Russell, Bertrand

26.

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

Feather, William

27.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

28.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

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

Boone, Daniel

30.

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

31.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

32.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

33.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

34.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

35.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

36.

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

37.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

39.

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

40.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

41.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

42.

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

43.

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

44.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

45.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

46.

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

Rockefeller, John D.