Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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''

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

10.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

11.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

12.

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

Ann Radcliffe

13.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

15.

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

16.

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

Chambers, Oswald

17.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

18.

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

19.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

20.

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

21.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

22.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

23.

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

24.

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

Aristotle

25.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

26.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

27.

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

28.

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

James Oppenheim

29.

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

30.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

31.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

32.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

33.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

35.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

36.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

37.

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

Anderson, Greg

38.

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

39.

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

40.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

41.

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

42.

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

Billings, Josh

43.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

44.

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

Nielsen, A.

45.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

46.

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

Horton, Doug

47.

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

Al Batt

48.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

49.

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von