Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Mason, John L.

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Dalai Lama

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

Abraham Lincoln

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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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.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John