Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Happiness

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Diderot, Denis

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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 not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brande, Dorothea

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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 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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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 not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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 attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda