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

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Epictetus

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Mason, John L.

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Rooney, Andy

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.