Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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

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

Ayn Rand

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Huxley, Aldous

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

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''

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

Solon

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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 secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

23.

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

Bob Newhart

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

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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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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Benjamin Franklin

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel