Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- George Burns

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Epicurus

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Fielding, Henry

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Mason, John L.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Chuck Sigars

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Confucius

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Nicole Kidman

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.