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

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

Aristotle

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

James Oppenheim

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

Horton, Doug

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

The laws of Manu

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

Al Batt

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

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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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Prevert, Jacques

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Bradley, Amanda