Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Al Batt

Best Quotes about Happiness

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Roy M. Goodman

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Anderson, Greg

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, 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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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Lao-tzu

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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 lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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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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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken