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

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Al Batt

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Bob Newhart

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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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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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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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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Kin Hubbard

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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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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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam