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 lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Josh Billings

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

John Berry

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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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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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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ann Radcliffe

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Stein, Ben

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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

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

Roy M. Goodman

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.