Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

2.

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

3.

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

4.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

5.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

6.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

8.

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

9.

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

11.

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

David Assael

12.

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

Mill, John Stuart

13.

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

14.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

15.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

16.

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

17.

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

Nash, Ogden

20.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

21.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

22.

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

Horace

23.

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

Smith, Adam

24.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

26.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

27.

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

28.

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

Ketchel, Holly

29.

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

31.

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

Carnegie, Dale

32.

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

33.

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

34.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

35.

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

Boone, Daniel

36.

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

37.

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

Robert Frost

38.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

39.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

41.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

42.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

44.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

45.

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

Proust, Marcel

46.

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

48.

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

49.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

50.

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