Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Happiness

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Farrall, Joseph

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Millman, Dan

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Goodman, Roy

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Herold, Don

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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 act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Stein, Ben

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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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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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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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 depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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.