Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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

Smith, Adam

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

Camus, Albert

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

The laws of Manu

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Muller, Max

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Roy M. Goodman

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Oscar Levant

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

David Assael

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Proust, Marcel

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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