Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Saroyan, William

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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)

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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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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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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 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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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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 never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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 human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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