Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

- Grayson, David

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

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

James Oppenheim

2.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

3.

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

4.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

5.

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

6.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

7.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

8.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

9.

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

10.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

11.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

12.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

13.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

14.

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

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Greene, Graham

17.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

18.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

19.

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

20.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

21.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

22.

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

23.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

24.

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

25.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

26.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

27.

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

28.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

30.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

31.

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

Kin Hubbard

32.

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

Benjamin Franklin

33.

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

34.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

37.

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

Clyde, R.D.

38.

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

Cloete, Stuart

39.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

40.

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

41.

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

Democritus

42.

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

43.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

44.

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

Boone, Daniel

45.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

46.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

47.

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

48.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

49.

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