Motivational Quotes

Happiness

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Horace

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Fielding, Henry

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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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 happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Epicurus

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Horton, Doug

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Feather, William

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler