Motivational Quotes

Happiness

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Solon

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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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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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.

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

Goodman, Roy

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

James Oppenheim

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Lao-tzu

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Lao-Tzu

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Bob Newhart

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William