Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

- Cloete, Stuart

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Proust, Marcel

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

George Burns

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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.

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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 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 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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb