Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

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

Orwell, George

2.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

3.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

4.

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

5.

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

Kin Hubbard

6.

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

7.

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

8.

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

9.

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

Boone, Daniel

10.

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

12.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

13.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

14.

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

Camus, Albert

15.

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

16.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Prutz

20.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

21.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

22.

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

Christopher Morley

23.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

24.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

25.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

26.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

27.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

28.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

29.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

30.

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

Solon

31.

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

32.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

33.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

34.

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

35.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Feather, William

38.

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

39.

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

40.

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

41.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

42.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

43.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

44.

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