Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Happiness

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Oscar Levant

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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 depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus