Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Sokoloff, Boris

Best Quotes about Happiness

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Prutz

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

Lao-tzu

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

Dalai Lama

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

Orwell, George

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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 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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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Millman, Dan

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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 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

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett