Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

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

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Anderson, Greg

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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Goodman, Roy

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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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 the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Al Batt

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

Billings, Josh

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Lao-tzu

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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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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.