Happiness Inspirational Quotes
Happiness Inspirational quotes can convey big ideas in few words. Inspiration quotes lets us wander the gardens of great minds. Following are inspirational quotes from many leaders about happiness.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln.
One must put all the happiness one can into each moment.
Edith Wharton
The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
True happiness is to . . . enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Seneca
These Inspirational Quotes indicate that joy is what most people want.
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness. . . . for most people at all times the secret motive of all they do.
William James
We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now.
Peter Russell
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end.
Blaise Pascal
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
William Lyon Phelps
Remember this. That very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius
Many American leaders wrote inspirational quotes.
America is the last great experiment for human happiness.
George Washington
Many inspirational quotes suggest that our emotional state is one that we choose.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on the outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin
Come to me. . . and let us be as happy as we can.
Samuel Johnson
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
George Bernard Shaw
To have peace and confidence within our souls—these are the beliefs
that makes for happiness.
Maurice Maeterlinck
The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ecstasy is a full, deep involvement in life.
John Lowell
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw.
The little known act of being happy.
Voltaire
Some inspirational quotes believe that actions are the source of happiness.
Happiness does not lie in results, but in the effort.
Dostoyevsky
We are a society that finds it difficult to discover the exuberant joy and spontaneity of childhood.
Sir Thomas Moore
Man needs for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell.
The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
Some inspirational quotes look at qualities in the person.
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Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any conditions.
Arthur Rubinstein
Happiness is really caring and being able to do something about the caring.
Brian O’Connell
Some inspirational quotes look at character of the person.
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Emerson
In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy.
Theodore Reik
We all want to be happy, and we’re all going to die. . . the only two unchangeable true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
William Boyd
No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Few inspirational quotes asks this question.
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Who is the happiest of man? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy.
Goethe
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim.
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Occasionally inspirational quotes give a recipe.
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Ibelieve four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
Bertrand Russell
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honore’ De Balzac
Seek happiness in the present, and you’ll find it in the future.
KaZuo Suzuki
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.
Dalai Lama
Almost all inspirational quotes seem to believe that we gift the world with our happiness.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
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January 23rd, 2009 20:18
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