Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Nash, Ogden

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 must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Epictetus

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Democritus

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Fountain., John

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fielding, Henry

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.