Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Dalai Lama

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

Fichte, Johann G.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Feather, William

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Nielsen, A.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Confucius

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Lucian

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

Mason, John L.

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

The laws of Manu

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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.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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 comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Jackson, Holbrook

43.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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 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

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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

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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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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De