Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Garrison, Theodosia

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Prutz

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

11.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Byron, Lord

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

38.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Zee, James Van Der

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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