Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Happiness

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

John Berry

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Billings, Josh

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Jonathan Haidt

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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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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Meltzer, Bernard