Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Lubbock, Sir John

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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

Lao-Tzu

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Prutz

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

Boone, Daniel

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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 the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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