Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Happiness

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Fielding, Henry

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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Rooney, Andy

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Chuck Sigars

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Robert Frost

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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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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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

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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will