Motivational Quotes

Happiness

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

- Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Happiness

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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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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

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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

George Burns

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Fielding, Henry

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.