Motivational Quotes

Happiness

For who is pleased with himself.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

William Cowper

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Feather, William

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

Dalai Lama

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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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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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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 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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Byron, Lord

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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

Bob Newhart

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.