Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Proust, Marcel

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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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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

Bob Newhart

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

Confucius

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Christopher Morley

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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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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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Alcott, Louisa May