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

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Buchan, John

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Horton, Doug

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

Ayn Rand

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

Saroyan, William

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Cloete, Stuart

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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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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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Proust, Marcel

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

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

Feather, William

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Stein, Ben

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