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

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

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.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Epictetus

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

13.

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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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Ann Radcliffe

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

George Burns

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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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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Stein, Ben

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

Christopher Morley

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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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

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.