Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Alcott, Louisa May

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Lucian

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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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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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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 sort of action.

Aristotle

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Horton, Doug

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Alda, Alan

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Kant, Immanuel