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

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

John Berry

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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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

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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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

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Al Batt

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.