Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Mason, John L.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Horton, Doug

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

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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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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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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Lucian

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bono, Edward De

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Nicole Kidman

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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