Collection of quotes about being happy with yourself and being happy quotes by famous authors.
Quotes About Being Happy with Yourself
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. ―Maurice Chevalier
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ―Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. ―Leo Rosten
Happiness is a direction, not a place. ―Sydney J. Harris
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ―Andre Gide
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. ―Alfred Lord Tennyson
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. ―Ben Jonson
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. ―Anatole France
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. ―Kin Hubbard
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. ―Euripides
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. ―David Lee Roth
Happiness isn’t something you experience it’s something you remember. ―Oscar Levant
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. ―Joseph Wood Krutch
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ―Desiderius Erasmus
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. ―Agnes Repplier
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ―Ashley Montagu
To describe happiness is to diminish it. ―Stendhal
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. ―Sophocles
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. ―Arnold Bennett
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. ―David Brainerd
Desire is individual. Happiness is common. ―Julian Casablancas
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. ―Rita Mae Brown
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. ―Adam Smith
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ―Don Marquis
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. ―Sarah McLachlan
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. ―Lucinda Williams
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ―John Stuart Mill
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. ―Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. ―Benjamin Spock
Happiness seems made to be shared. ―Pierre Corneille
