Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Al Batt

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

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

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Mill, John Stuart

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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 requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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 is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates