Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Alda, Alan

Best Quotes about Happiness

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Bradley, Amanda

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

Feather, William

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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

Muller, Max

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Christopher Morley

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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 experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Chuck Sigars

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

Thomas Szasz

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Robert Frost

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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 doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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