Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Al Batt

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

James Oppenheim

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

25.

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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Oliphant, Margaret

28.

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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

41.

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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan