Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Democritus

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

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

David Assael

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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 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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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

John Berry

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Smith, Adam

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

Bob Newhart

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Alcott, Louisa May