Motivational Quotes

Happiness

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Smith, Adam

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

19.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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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

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

23.

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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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 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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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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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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 happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

45.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

47.

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.