Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Christopher Morley

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Robert Frost

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Rockefeller, John D.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Oscar Levant

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 activity.

Aristotle

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

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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 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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.