Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

- Lucas, E. V.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Alcott, Louisa May

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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''

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Horton, Doug

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

The laws of Manu

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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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

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.