Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Smith, Adam

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

Billings, Josh

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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, 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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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

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

Nielsen, A.

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Ann Radcliffe

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Dalai Lama

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

David Assael

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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 something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim