Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Millman, Dan

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

George Burns

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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 like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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

James Oppenheim

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Kennedy, John F.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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