Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

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

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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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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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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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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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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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

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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 is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Christopher Morley

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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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 is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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

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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 is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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