Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Bob Newhart

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Ann Radcliffe

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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 a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Bradley, Amanda

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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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Al Batt

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

Nash, Ogden

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max