Motivational Quotes

Happiness

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

David Assael

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Upanishads, Veda

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Camus, Albert

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Dalai Lama

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Oscar Levant

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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 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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.