Quotes About Happiness

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can't forget to take care of ourselves.

When people are living from passion, they tend to be fulfilled, happy, healthy, and love everyone around them.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother's knee it's better to appreciate what's happening... I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.

I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted because you're not getting what you want, and you're always striving and looking ahead instead of just being in the moment.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

I feel like what I have learned in my career in racing is that anytime you are happy off the race track it tends to show up on the race track.

If you are happy in your private life, and - that will affect your tennis, and that will help you, actually.

Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.

I would be happy to do more sightseeing. I would love to do more after my tennis career.

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

I'm really happy to be back on the court to play tennis, to really do what I love.

I feel comfortable on and off the court, happy in my own skin, just really comfortable with the way I'm playing my tennis.

Tennis court, the results, yes, it gives me a feeling of accomplishment and knowing that all the work I put in is working. It's a great feeling. But happiness is something way bigger than tennis.

I'm very proud to be a professional tennis player. I'm really happy to be doing something that I love. With this comes responsibility, and I am honored when I am told that I have inspired someone to play tennis.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

Once I see my mother's smiling face, I forget all the shooting pressures and tensions. I am the happiest person at that moment.

I can't stand adversity and stress and drama and tension. I can't function in that environment. If I have anything to say about it, we're going to get rid of it so that everyone can just relax and have a good time.

My dad had a great career and if I could win a tenth of what he did in football, I'd be happy.

We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.