Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

Roy M. Goodman

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

David Assael

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Solon

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

C. P. Snow

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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 is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Proust, Marcel

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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 is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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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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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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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.