Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Mason, John L.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Carlyle, Thomas

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Confucius

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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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

27.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

George Burns

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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 when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca