Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Heywood, John

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.

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

Prazlin, Duchess

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Christopher Morley

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

John Berry

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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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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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Oscar Levant

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

William Cowper

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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