Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Boone, Daniel

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

William Cowper

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Jean Houston

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Oprah Winfrey

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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 is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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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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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 world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant