Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Muller, Max

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Horton, Doug

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

Lao-Tzu

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Stein, Ben

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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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 like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Byron, Lord

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Goodman, Roy

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Kin Hubbard

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Diderot, Denis

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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 comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Greene, Graham

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Lucian

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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 a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.