Motivational Quotes

Happiness

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

David Assael

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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Stossel, John

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates