Personal Happiness Quotes:

Success is measured by personal happiness.

- Usher

topic: Personal Happiness, Success Is Measured By, Success Is Measured

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

- Ayn Rand

topic: Happiness, Time, Addiction, States Of Consciousness, Principles And Values

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Spiritual Happiness, Just Be Happy

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Life, Motivational, Happiness, Joy Happiness, Comfort And Happiness

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.

- Cecelia Ahern

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspiration And Life, Life And Inspirational

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Personal Happiness

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Love, Life, Happiness, Inner Happiness, Happy Anniversary

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Happiness, Simplicity, Needs, Frugality, Oaks

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

- John Locke

source: 1693 Some Thoughts Concerning Education, opening words. See Juvenal 453:20.

topic: Happiness, Get Well, Health, Sound Mind, Mind Body And Soul

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

- Epicurus

topic: Happiness, Money, Philosophical, Always Happy, Happy Girl

Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.

- Roy M. Goodman

topic: Personal Happiness

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Happiness, Passion, Men, Secret To Happiness, Life And Passion

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

topic: Doors, Long, Looks, Daily Work, Always Happy

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Encouragement, Life And Passion, How To Be Happy

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

- Martha Washington

topic: Cheerful, May, Determined, Success Happiness, Happy Inspirational

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

- Hugh Downs

topic: Positive, Attitude, Certain, Inner Peace And Happiness, Inspirational Attitude

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Happiness, Creativity, Zest, Joy Happiness, Joy Within

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Lax, My Own Happiness

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

- Albert Camus

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Happy, Inner Happiness, Inner Peace And Happiness

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

- James Oppenheim

source: James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

topic: Positive, Happiness, Wise, Always Happy, Foolish Man

Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

- Herman Cain

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Keys, Future Success, Just Being You

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Happiness, Being Happy, Motivation, Make Someone Happy, Always Happy

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

- John Lennon

topic: Mother, Keys, Years, Inner Peace And Happiness, Just Being You

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Make Someone Happy, Joy Happiness

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Happiness, Women, Recovery, Inner Happiness, Inner Peace And Happiness

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Happiness, Being Happy, Soulmate, Joy Happiness, Just Be Happy

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Happy, Social Good, Loving Others

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Social Harmony, Life Philosophy

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Achingly Alice”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Life Philosophy, About Success

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Want, Abundance, Enough, Oaks, What Is Happiness

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

- Karl Marx

topic: Happiness, People, Experience, Inner Happiness, Inner Peace And Happiness

You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

- Kirsten Dunst

source: "Kirsten Dunst: after the apocalypse" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2011.

topic: Happiness, Simple, Satisfaction, Jeopardy, Oaks

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

- Goswami Kriyananda

topic: Being Happy, Determination, Attitude, Personal Happiness, Simple Happiness

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

- C.P. Snow

topic: Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Phrases, Personal Happiness, Art Of Happiness

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.

- Andrew Delbanco

topic: Happy, People, Effort, Personal Happiness, Futile Efforts

You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that’s the sad truth. Maybe they’ll break your heart, maybe you’ll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks. You see two people and you think they belong together, but nothing happens. The thought of losing so much control over personal happiness is unbearable. That’s the burden. Like wings, they have weight, we feel that weight on our backs, but they are a burden that lifts us. Burdens that allow us to fly.

- T. J. Thyne

topic: Heart, Thinking, Wings, Personal Happiness

Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and achieve personal happiness. The worthy goals of civilization can only be achieved by freedom-loving individuals. When government uses force, liberty is sacrificed and the goals are lost. It is freedom that is the source of all creative energy.

- Ron Paul

source: Ron Paul Video Address Announcing 2008 Presidential Exploratory Committee, blog.4president.org. February 19, 2007.

topic: Freedom, Government, Civilization, Personal Happiness

I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.

- Grant Hart

source: Source: music.avclub.com

topic: Thinking, Financial, Problem, Personal Happiness

The millennium development goals are important, both morally and economically, because much of the world's population maybe is as much as a third of the world's population hasn't yet reached the level of economic development where we begin to get a dissociation from people's economic status and their reports about personal happiness. So we really do need to do much more and much more effectively in order to give everyone the kind of basis for which they can have good vibes.

- Dale Jamieson

topic: Giving, Goal, Important, Personal Happiness

Personal happiness seems mysteriously and frustratingly elusive. Even when people achieve it, they can't hold onto it. That is the greatest clue, the biggest hint, the surest sign that something's amiss.

- Neale Donald Walsch

source: "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: People, Hints, Clue, Elusive, Personal Happiness

The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Real, Ideas, People, Incline, Personal Happiness

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

- Elizabeth Montagu

topic: Envy, Secret, Excellence, Personal Happiness

While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.

- Meryl Streep

topic: Believe, Awards, Acting, Personal Happiness

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

topic: Perfect, Elements, Taught, Stingy, Personal Happiness

I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright... Or maybe "stupid" is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.489, Pan Macmillan

topic: Jesus, Stupid, Long, Jesus Freak, Personal Happiness

You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.

- Jada Pinkett Smith

topic: Husband, Love You, Deep Love, I Love My Family, Personal Happiness

In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.489, Pan Macmillan

topic: Fear And Loathing, World, Finding Peace, Personal Happiness

I would have taken the time to learn how to listen earlier. Learning about non-violent communication and how to take feedback has been integral to both my personal happiness and professional success.

- Dale J. Stephens

topic: Communication, Taken, Feedback, Professional Success, Personal Happiness

National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but the law talks about anyone who endangers the security of the United States is going to go to jail. So, here you are, especially in the Pentagon. Some guy tells you something. He says that's a national security matter. Well, you're supposed to tremble and get scared and it never, almost never means the security of the national government. More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.

- Ben Bradlee

topic: Mean, Jail, Government, Personal Happiness

It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.

- Karen Finerman

topic: Love Life, Goal, Financial, Personal Fulfillment, Personal Happiness

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

- Margaret Deland

topic: Privilege, Conflict, Claims, Personal Happiness, Resigning