Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Herold, Don

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

17.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Farrall, Joseph

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

Hoffer, Eric

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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