Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

- Kindleberger, J.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herold, Don

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

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

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Oscar Levant

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Christopher Morley

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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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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 final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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