Motivational Quotes

Happiness

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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 positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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 most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Spencer, Herbert

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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 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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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)

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley