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

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

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

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

The laws of Manu

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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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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

Ketchel, Holly

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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 consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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 experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Stein, Ben

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

Saroyan, William