Motivational Quotes

Happiness

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Happiness

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Meltzer, Bernard

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

George Burns

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Goodman, Roy

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Bob Newhart

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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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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

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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