Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Aristotle

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Bradley, Amanda

10.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

11.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

13.

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

14.

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

Nicole Kidman

15.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

16.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

17.

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

18.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

19.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

20.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

23.

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

24.

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

George Burns

25.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

26.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

27.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

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

30.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

31.

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

Jonathan Haidt

32.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

34.

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

35.

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

36.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

38.

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

39.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

40.

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

41.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

42.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

43.

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

44.

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

45.

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

46.

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

Democritus

47.

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

Oprah Winfrey

48.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

49.

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

50.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing