Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness seems made to be shared.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Happiness

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Millman, Dan

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Clyde, R.D.

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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 not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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 is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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

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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Feather, William

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

Christopher Morley

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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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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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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

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

Solon

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur