Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Happiness

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Confucius

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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Nicole Kidman

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Goodman, Roy

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

27.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

33.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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 act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard