Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Nicole Kidman

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

George Burns

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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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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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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

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

Nielsen, A.

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

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre