Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Zee, James Van Der

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

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Stein, Ben

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

10.

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

11.

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

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

13.

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

14.

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

Nielsen, A.

15.

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

16.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

17.

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

Freud, Sigmund

18.

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

Mill, John Stuart

19.

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

Lucian

20.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

21.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

22.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

23.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

24.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

26.

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

Prevert, Jacques

27.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

28.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

29.

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

30.

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

31.

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

32.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

33.

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

Feather, William

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

39.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

40.

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

Camus, Albert

41.

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

42.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

43.

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.