Success is measured by personal happiness. — Usher
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient. — Aristotle
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success. — Denis Waitley
True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed. — Dalai Lama
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. — John W. Gardner
If I am happy in my personal life, I will be happy in my profession. — Antoine Griezmann
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. — Paramahansa Yogananda
It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy. — Agatha Christie
When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. — Joyce Brothers
Inner happiness actually is the fuel of success. — John Hagelin
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. — Matthieu Ricard
Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy. — Eric Edmeades
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness. — Herbert Spencer
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. — Iris Murdoch
When You Find Happiness Quotes
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. — Tina Turner
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. — John D. Rockefeller III
True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving. — Mark Manson
If you see a person without a smile, give them one of yours.
Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with. — Tyler Perry
Life is like any other contact sport. You may encounter hardships of one sort or another. Wise people find happiness not in the absence of such hardships, but in their ability to understand them when they occur. — Sydney Banks
The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well. — Sophia Bush
They say a person needs just three things to be happy: 1. Someone to love 2. Something to do 3. Something to hope for.
Look to the present. The great disease of 'I will be happy when ...' is sweeping the world. You know the symptoms. You start thinking: I'll be happy when I get that ... BMW ... promotion ... status ... money. The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now. — Marshall Goldsmith
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. — Groucho Marx
I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around. — Taylor Swift
You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost. — Eileen Caddy
Self Care Happiness Quotes
I aim for a daily target of music and a weekly quota of comedy, workouts, and other feel-good activities. — Mo Gawdat
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you. — Karl Lagerfeld
If you truly care about being happy in your life and successful in your work, you have little choice. You have to become the author of your own ‘script’, one written by your heart, not one directed by your society. — Steven Bartlett
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
If we’re dating, I want to be your second priority. I want your first priority to be you, your ambitions, your life, and your future because my priority right now is me and mine. Finding happiness and security alone is crucial to finding it together. — Steven Bartlett
Giving yourself the best opportunity to be happy by doing the things in your life that create the fundamental foundation for happiness is a good way to begin. — Chris Williamson
You can't hate yourself happy, You can't criticize yourself thin, You can't shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self care. — Jessica Ortner
A person who's happy will make others happy
I do sometimes think what outfit will make me happy. It's one of those self-care things. If I don't have time to do yoga in the morning, then I have a certain sweater/shirt combination that makes me feel put together. — Kathleen Hanna
People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit. — Criss Jami
Customer Happiness Quotes
You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back. — Alexander Turney Stewart
We are very committed to listening to our customers’ feedback and making changes to deliver happiness to our users. — Eric Yuan
Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that. — Herb Kelleher
If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works. — Herb Kelleher
Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will. — Bill Gates
The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy. — Jack Ma
The easiest and most powerful way to increase customer loyalty is really very simple. Make your customers happy. — Kevin Stirtz
... Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success. — Richard Branson
The most successful marketer becomes part of the lives of their followers. They follow back. They wish happy birthday. They handle problems their customers have with products or service. They grow their businesses and brands by involving themselves in their own communities. — Marsha Collier
The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the customers are happy and the cooks are happy, then we have a great experience. — Mario Batali
Happy Person Quotes
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. — Ralph Marston
Having a child is an experience that teaches a person how important to prioritize the happiness of another person.Whatever you do, even whatever you are, is an example for him . In fact, that little being who depends on you so much , makes you also to have a huge dependence on him. — Neymar
Find something that is a happy, healthy alternative to hurting yourself, as opposed to taking a razor blade to yourself because at the end of the day, you're only hurting the most important person in the world and that's you. And you don't want to hurt that person. — Andy Biersack
For most people to be happy, there has to be a person, place, or thing involved in their happiness. In true happiness, there are no things involved. It's a natural state. You will abide in that state forever. — Robert Adams
Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents. — Thales
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson
Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again. — George Whitefield
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. — Albert Ellis
I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work. — Bertrand Russell
Individual Happiness Quotes
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose
Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way. — Nikki Giovanni
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. — Pablo Picasso
Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated. — Gad Saad
The fairy tales of how life is ‘supposed to be going’ will f*ck up your life. You don’t have to go to university at 18, get a job at 21, buy a house at 30, get married at 35, and have kids at 36. Everyone is completely different, and your path to happiness will be completely different too. — Steven Bartlett
If you want to take the road to independence and happiness, find the right person to depend on and travel down it with that person. — Amir Levine
You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player. — Suzanne Farrell
In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness — Prentice Mulford
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis. — Upton Sinclair
Self Happiness Quotes
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. — Marva Collins
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness. — Adi Shankara
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. — Mary, Queen of Scots
Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening. — Nelson Mandela
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. — Ramana Maharshi
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness. — Fulton J. Sheen
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. — Foster C. Mcclellan
Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. — Dalai Lama
Human Happiness Quotes
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. — Cyrus the Great
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth — Jim Harrison
You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us. — Christopher McCandless
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. — Oscar Wilde
If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self. — K. Pattabhi Jois
Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year. — Dalai Lama
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer
My Own Happiness Quotes
I have both Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as my idols. If I can take a little of each player's game and make it my own, I would be very happy. — Neymar
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is. — Adi Shankara
I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground. — Madam C. J. Walker
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile. — Jennifer Garner
My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field. — Snoop Dogg
When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. — Paul Ryan
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison. — Daniil Kharms
The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness. — Dalai Lama
Let people do what they need to do to make them happy. Mind your own business, and do what you need to do to make you happy. — Leon Brown
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure. — Emilie du Chatelet
A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility — Dalai Lama
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. — Buddha
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times. — Zig Ziglar
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. — Frank Herbert
The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude... The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times. — Zig Ziglar
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. — Linus Pauling
To live in the present moment is the highest calling. It’s the source of all happiness. — Naval Ravikant
What Is Happiness Quotes
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. — Dale Carnegie
My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine. — Jhene Aiko
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. — Carlos Castaneda
If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland. — Chandra Shekhar Azad
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness — Esther Hicks
Who will be the happiest person?
The one who brings happiness to others. — Swami Satchidananda
My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones. — Kiana Tom
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. — Albert Einstein
Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness. Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and others. Through your kindness to others, your mind and heart will open to peace. — Dalai Lama
Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi
The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness. — Zayn Malik
Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy. It is as if a wave of precious memories, sweet affections and joyful hopes swept over my poor person, making me tremble with happiness and filling my soul with tenderness. — Pope John XXIII
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. — Joseph Addison
I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art. — Helena Bonham Carter
To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting. — Joseph Fort Newton
If you commit to yourself... if you commit to love yourself, despite everything that's happened to you, despite everything you've done, your life can be beautiful, but it starts with a decision to move forward. — Tom Bilyeu
Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice. — Naval Ravikant
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. — Steven Spielberg
If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see. — Deepak Chopra
One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such a world to one person, one will become ten people, and then a hundred. The world will be full of happy people then. — Enrique Iglesias
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. — Theodore Roosevelt
We've had nine amazing years on TV. But getting engaged to Melyssa is the best thing that's ever happened to me. — James Murray
Your life can be beautiful, but it starts with a decision to move forward. — Tom Bilyeu
Happiness is a skill that everyone has the ability to cultivate and develop. One of the problems we face in our quest for happiness is that we have not actually defined what it means for us. — Rangan Chatterjee
The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles. — Naval Ravikant
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl
Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love. — A. A. Milne
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