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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Dalai Lama

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Nielsen, A.

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

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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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

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Byron, Lord

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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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.