Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

- Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Best Quotes about Happiness

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

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

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Oscar Levant

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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