Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Wilde, Oscar

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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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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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Epictetus

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Rooney, Andy

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

William Cowper

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Buchan, John

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Smith, Adam

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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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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 biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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