Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Waitley, Denis

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Cloete, Stuart

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

John Berry

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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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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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 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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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.