Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Muller, Max

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Robert Frost

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

10.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Prazlin, Duchess

14.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

16.

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

Kennedy, John F.

18.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

19.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

20.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

21.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

22.

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.

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

24.

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

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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

27.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

28.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

29.

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

30.

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

Diderot, Denis

32.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

33.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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 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 comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

37.

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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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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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

43.

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

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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 isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Stein, Ben

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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz