Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Clyde, R.D.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Al Batt

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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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 not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Stossel, John

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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 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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Billings, Josh

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.