Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Happiness

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Freud, Sigmund

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.

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Camus, Albert

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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.

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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 lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

David Assael

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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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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 can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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