Motivational Quotes

Happiness

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

- Downs, Hugh

Best Quotes about Happiness

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Abraham Lincoln

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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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 perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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

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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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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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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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 brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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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, 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 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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred