Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Garrison, Theodosia

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Nash, Ogden

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

David Assael

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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

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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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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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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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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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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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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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

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Rooney, Andy

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham