Motivational Quotes

Happiness

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Happiness

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

John Berry

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.