Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Al Batt

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Robert Frost

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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 a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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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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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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 activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Scottish

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