Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Rockefeller, John D.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Byron, Lord

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Democritus

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

George Burns

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

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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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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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 you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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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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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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

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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