Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Horton, Doug

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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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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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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Oscar Levant

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

Al Batt

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

Prevert, Jacques

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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... 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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Robert Frost

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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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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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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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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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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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.