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

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Billings, Josh

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Saroyan, William

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Mason, John L.

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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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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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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 secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Jefferson, Thomas