Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness seems made to be shared.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Waitley, Denis

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Goodman, Roy

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

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

David Assael

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

Nicole Kidman

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Mill, John Stuart

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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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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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Christopher Morley

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Stein, Ben

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Joy comes from using your potential.