Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

- Lucian

Best Quotes about Happiness

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

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

David Assael

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

Fountain., John

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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 creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Democritus

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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