Being Yourself And Happy Quotes:

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.

- John Spence

topic: Being Yourself, Thinking, Choices, Life Is Changing, My Life Is Changing

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

- Oprah Winfrey

source: FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Oct 03, 2011

topic: Positive, Thank You, Thankful, Concentrating, Spiritual Blessings

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

- Edwin Bailey Elliott

topic: Life, Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Inspirations Being Yourself, Inspiring Yourself

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

- Alice Walker

topic: Happiness, Success, Being Happy, Others Happiness, My Own Happiness

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Wisdom, Live Life To Its Fullest

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Inspirational, Life, Confidence, Martial Arts Inspirational, Instructors

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

- Judy Garland

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiration And Motivation, Grad

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Mean, Lost, Different Roads, Inner Happiness, Secret To Happiness

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

- John Lennon

topic: School, Grew Up, Grew, Just Being You, Just Want To Be Happy

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

Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. 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 that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

- Shakti Gawain

topic: Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Careers, Happier Life, Inspirational Career

Be yourself, but always your better self.

- Karl G. Maeser

source: Sentence-Sermons from Brigham Young University Quarterly. The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Volume 70, 1908.

topic: Being Yourself, Self, Just Being You, Being Yourself And Happy, Always Be Yourself

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

- Barbara Cook

topic: Being Yourself, Essence, Competition, Inspirations Being Yourself, True To Oneself

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

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

- Dolly Parton

source: Twitter post from Jul 20, 2009

topic: Life, Happiness, Being Yourself, Just Believe In Yourself, Think For Yourself

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

- Epictetus

topic: Positive, Happiness, Thank You, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

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

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

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

- Mark Twain

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Sorrow And Happiness, Joy And Sadness

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Beauty, Improve Self Esteem, Just Believe In Yourself

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

- Audrey Hepburn

source: "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

topic: Self Esteem, Firsts, Rate, Inspiration And Motivation, Grad

To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying, Understanding Yourself, Self Healing

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

- Epictetus

source: Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications

topic: Happiness, Success, Being Happy, You Make Me Happy, Spiritual Beings

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

- Bindi Irwin

source: Instagram post by Bindi Irwin @bindisueirwin, www.instagram.com. June 2, 2015.

topic: Needs, Accepting Yourself, Accepted, Self Healing, Inspiring Self Esteem

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

- John Lennon

topic: Mindfulness, Planning, Life Is, Just Live Your Life, Inspirational Thank You

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

- Euripides

topic: Life, Positive, Graduation, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirations Being Yourself

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Happiness, Happy, Mean, Different Roads, Secret To Happiness

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Soul Life, Dwell On The Past

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Life, Buddhist, Buddhism, Soul Life, Dwell On The Past