Motivational Quotes

Happiness

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Democritus

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

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Nicole Kidman

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Scottish

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

Billings, Josh

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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 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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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

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

Feather, William

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

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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

Lao-Tzu

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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

Lao-tzu

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver