Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Happiness

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Alda, Alan

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

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Smith, Adam

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

10.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

11.

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

12.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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 is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Lucian

25.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Landor, Walter Savage

27.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

31.

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

Upanishads, Veda

32.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

33.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

34.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

35.

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dalai Lama

38.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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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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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies