Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Happiness

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

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

George Burns

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Meredith, Owen

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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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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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.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

Prutz

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

32.

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

33.

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

Epicurus

34.

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

Feather, William

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

38.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

42.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

Upanishads, Veda