Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Smith, Adam

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Nash, Ogden

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Christopher Morley

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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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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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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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.

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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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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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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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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