Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bob Newhart

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

James Oppenheim

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

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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 is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Buchan, John

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Stossel, John

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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 never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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.

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?