Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

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

Mason, John L.

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Buchan, John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Horace

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

Nash, Ogden

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

The laws of Manu

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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

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

Stein, Ben

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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 the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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 comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Democritus

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Robert Frost

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.