Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Cloete, Stuart

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

Josh Billings

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

Russell, Bertrand

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Dalai Lama

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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

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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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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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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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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Stossel, John

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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

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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.