Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Happiness

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Billings, Josh

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

Herold, Don

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Diderot, Denis

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Proust, Marcel

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Prutz

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Bob Newhart

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Wilde, Oscar

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David