Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

- Bradley, Amanda

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Kin Hubbard

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Horton, Doug

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Camus, Albert

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Nash, Ogden

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Meredith, Owen

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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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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

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Oprah Winfrey