Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Prevert, Jacques

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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)

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

11.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Chambers, Oswald

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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 ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Byron, Lord

33.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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

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

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Bob Newhart

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Hoffer, Eric