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

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Lao-tzu

11.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Herold, Don

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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 destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Horton, Doug

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Proust, Marcel

33.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

35.

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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