Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Goodman, Roy

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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 the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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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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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Hesse, Hermann

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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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 is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Horton, Doug

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

Solon

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William