Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

David Assael

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Bob Newhart

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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 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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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.