Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Buchan, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Stein, Ben

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

12.

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

18.

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Josh Billings

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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

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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