Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Solon

Best Quotes about Happiness

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Orwell, George

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Goodman, Roy

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Bob Newhart

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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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

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

Fountain., John

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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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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques