Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Lao-tzu

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Feather, William

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

David Assael

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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.

Billings, Josh

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aurelius, Marcus