Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Stossel, John

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

10.

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

11.

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

12.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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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.

14.

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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 by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

21.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

23.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

25.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

27.

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

Proverb, Scottish

28.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

30.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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 doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Lao-tzu

40.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Horton, Doug

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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 like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

49.

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart