Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

- Harrigan, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Meredith, Owen

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

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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

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

Muller, Max

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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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.

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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 secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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