Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Happiness

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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

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

Al Batt

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

14.

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Horton, Doug

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Chambers, Oswald

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

John Berry

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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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 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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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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 only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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