Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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

Addison, Joseph

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.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Epicurus

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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 not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.