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

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

Proverb, Scottish

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bentham, Jeremy

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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 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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

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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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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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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

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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

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

Christopher Morley

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Confucius