Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Robert Frost

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

Camus, Albert

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Rooney, Andy

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Al Batt

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Anderson, Greg

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Rohn, Jim