Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Alda, Alan

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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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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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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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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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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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Camus, Albert

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Chuck Sigars

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Oscar Levant

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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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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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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