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

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Boone, Daniel

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Mason, John L.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Stossel, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rohn, Jim

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

12.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

14.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

15.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

17.

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

18.

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

Oscar Levant

20.

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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 not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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

30.

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

Hesse, Hermann

31.

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

32.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

34.

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

Nicole Kidman

35.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

40.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Lao-Tzu

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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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

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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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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

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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran