Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Christopher Morley

Best Quotes about Happiness

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, Spanish

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Nielsen, A.

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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

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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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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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.