Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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

Mason, John L.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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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 comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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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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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 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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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

31.

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

John Berry

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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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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

49.

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb