Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Dalai Lama

Best Quotes about Happiness

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lao-tzu

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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 not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ayn Rand

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

Dalai Lama

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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.

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler