Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Happiness

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 is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

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

Bentham, Jeremy

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Camus, Albert

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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 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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln