Achieving Happiness Quotes

• Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

  Herman Cain

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell

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• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Jacques Prevert

  Positive, Happiness, Happy

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• There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

  Maria Mitchell

  Happiness, Happy, Beauty

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• Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Happiness, Success, Inner Peace

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• It is not the critic who counts

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Military, Failure

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2759, Delphi Classics

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Courage, Badass

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Firsts

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• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

  Dale Carnegie

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.102, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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• Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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  Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

  Connie Sellecca

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Being Happy, Inner Peace

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• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 09, 2014

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• If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

  Martha Washington

  Happiness, Happy, Attitude

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

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Happy, Hippie

  Attributed to Bertrand Russell, Think, Vol. 27 (p. 32), 1961.

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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  F. H. Bradley

  Happiness, Secret, Admiration

  Aphorisms (1930) no. 33

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