Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Happiness

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will