Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Happiness

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Confucius

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

James Oppenheim

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

Cloete, Stuart

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Christopher Morley

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Dalai Lama