Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Beckett, Samuel

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

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

Bradley, Amanda

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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 consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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

Feather, William

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Millman, Dan

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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, 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

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

Jean Houston

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

Christopher Morley

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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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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 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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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