Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

- Barthel, Mildred

Best Quotes about Happiness

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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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

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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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

23.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Feather, William

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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 like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Fountain., John

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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Democritus

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Horton, Doug

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

Al Batt

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.