Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Smith, Adam

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Dyer, Wayne

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

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

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

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

10.

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

11.

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

Smith, Adam

12.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

13.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

14.

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

15.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

16.

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

17.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

18.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

19.

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

Al Batt

20.

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

21.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

23.

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

24.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Horace

27.

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

28.

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

Lao-Tzu

29.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

30.

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

Kin Hubbard

31.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

32.

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

33.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

34.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

35.

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

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.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

38.

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

Cloete, Stuart

39.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

40.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

41.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

42.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

43.

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

44.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

45.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

46.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

47.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

48.

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

49.

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

Ann Radcliffe

50.

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.