Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Alcott, Louisa May

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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)

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fichte, Johann G.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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

Diderot, Denis

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Dalai Lama

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

The laws of Manu

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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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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mason, John L.

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Al Batt

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel