Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Joy comes from using your potential.

- Schultz, Will

Best Quotes about Happiness

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Dalai Lama

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

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Sokoloff, Boris

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Prutz

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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

Levenson, Samuel

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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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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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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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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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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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.

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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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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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 can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green