Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Democritus

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Bob Newhart

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

David Assael

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 is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Alda, Alan

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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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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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.