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

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Alda, Alan

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Anderson, Greg

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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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 and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman