Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Happiness

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

David Assael

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

George Burns

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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.

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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