Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

Josh Billings

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

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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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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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Confucius

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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 the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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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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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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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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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier