Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Sokoloff, Boris

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Chambers, Oswald

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 is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Rooney, Andy

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

David Assael

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Greene, Graham

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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 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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Democritus

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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 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.