Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Clyde, R.D.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Heywood, John

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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 is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Jeans, Sir James

33.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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 neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William