Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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)

Best Quotes about Happiness

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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.

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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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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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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 is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Confucius

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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 human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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.