Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Happiness

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Addison, Joseph

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Proust, Marcel

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Rohn, Jim

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mason, John L.

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.