Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

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

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Smith, Adam

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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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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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 pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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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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

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

Buchan, John

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

Stossel, John

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca