Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

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

We are ourselves our happiness.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

I don't think there's anybody in this world who should be required to make you feel good about yourself. Be happy on your own.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

Happiness comes from within.

A lot of people, they think, 'Oh, I'm only going to be happy when I find a special person who is going to make me happy.' No. In life, you have to be happy with yourself first, number one.

All the happiness you ever find lies in you.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.

I'm just content with myself, happy with myself.

The most important thing is to be happy and true to yourself. I don't want to look back at this in 30 years from now and say, 'I did it all to make them happy and I didn't enjoy.'

Find your happiness in yourself.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

I've had a fantastic life so far; I'm lucky. I'd like the great role that changes everything, but at the moment, what's important is being happy in myself.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple.

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

I spent a lot of my 20s just trying to make other people happy, rather than trying to figure out if doing that made me happy.

If I can make those people happy, why can't I make myself happy.

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.

At the end of the day, if you are not happy, no one can make you happy.