Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Alcott, Louisa May

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

11.

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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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 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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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Bob Newhart

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Meredith, Owen

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Bradley, Amanda

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.