Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Millman, Dan

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

George Burns

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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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 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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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Ann Radcliffe

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.