Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Farrall, Joseph

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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 greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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 am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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