Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Best Quotes about Happiness

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

The laws of Manu

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

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

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Lao-tzu

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Prutz

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

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

31.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Mason, John L.

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

Lao-Tzu

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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 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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Rooney, Andy

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

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness seems made to be shared.