Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Horton, Doug

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dalai Lama

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Prutz

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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 not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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 consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

The laws of Manu

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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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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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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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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