Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Horton, Doug

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

Abraham Lincoln

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Nash, Ogden

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Robert Frost

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

Al Batt

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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 comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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 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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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall