Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jefferson, Thomas

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

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

David Assael

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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 held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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 the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer