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

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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 happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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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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 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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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