Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Keyes Jr., Ken

Best Quotes about Happiness

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Nash, Ogden

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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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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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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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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