Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ann Radcliffe

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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 activity.

Aristotle

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Nicole Kidman