Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Wilde, Oscar

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Freud, Sigmund

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lao-tzu

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

Democritus

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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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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Solon

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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Mason, John L.

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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