Motivational Quotes

Happiness

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

11.

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Diderot, Denis

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Christopher Morley

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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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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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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 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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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''