Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

- Erikson, Erik H.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dalai Lama

11.

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

Nielsen, A.

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Lao-tzu

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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

29.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.