Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

- Barthel, Mildred

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Proverb, Scottish

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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

Horace

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

Feather, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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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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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

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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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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August