Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

- Frank, Anne

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Epicurus

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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 are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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.

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph