Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Prutz

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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 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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Cloete, Stuart

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Aurelius, Marcus