Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

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

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.

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

Christopher Morley

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

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

Horton, Doug

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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 no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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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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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Al Batt

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Robert Frost

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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