Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Happiness

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Al Batt

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

Zee, James Van Der

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

Orwell, George

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

15.

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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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 not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Muller, Max

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Feather, William

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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

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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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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall