Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Alda, Alan

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Farrall, Joseph

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.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

10.

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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 a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

20.

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

George Burns

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Benjamin Franklin

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

David Assael

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Nash, Ogden

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris