Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Happiness

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bob Newhart

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Byron, Lord

16.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Fielding, Henry

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Prevert, Jacques

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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.

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

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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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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 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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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