Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Oscar Levant

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Epicurus

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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

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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 is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies