Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Best Quotes about Happiness

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

David Assael

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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.

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Sokoloff, Boris

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Goodman, Roy

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Oscar Levant

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

Herold, Don

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

James Oppenheim

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.