Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Best Quotes about Happiness

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bradley, Amanda

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Cloete, Stuart

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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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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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 in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Bob Newhart

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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 an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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 ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Solon

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

James Oppenheim

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

Herold, Don

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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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.