Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Kin Hubbard

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Wilde, Oscar

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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

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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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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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 makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Horton, Doug

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Epicurus