Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Sokoloff, Boris

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Lao-tzu

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Feather, William

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.