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

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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.

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

Al Batt

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Greene, Graham

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Oscar Levant