Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Herold, Don

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Bradley, Amanda

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

Bergson, Henri L.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Josh Billings

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

14.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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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

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

Robert Frost

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

Stein, Ben

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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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 is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Clyde, R.D.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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 a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Oprah Winfrey

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