Motivational Quotes

Happiness

For who is pleased with himself.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

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

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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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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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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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.

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

18.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

19.

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''

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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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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Stein, Ben

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Upanishads, Veda

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

The laws of Manu

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Horton, Doug

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric