Motivational Quotes

Happiness

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

- Bergson, Henri L.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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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 is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Horace

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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 two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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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 is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis