Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Where one is wise two are happy.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Happiness

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

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

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

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

10.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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 adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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.

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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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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 lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Oscar Levant

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Nicole Kidman

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Byron, Lord

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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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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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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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.