Motivational Quotes

Happiness

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

- Smith, Adam

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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

Alda, Alan

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

Dalai Lama

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

Fielding, Henry

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Horton, Doug

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

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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 is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Oscar Levant

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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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 are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus