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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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.

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Jean Houston

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

Fichte, Johann G.

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ayn Rand

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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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

The laws of Manu

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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