Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

- Heatter, Gabriel

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Byron, Lord

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Benjamin Franklin

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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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 not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 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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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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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Chuck Sigars

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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.

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald