Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Dalai Lama

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

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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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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Al Batt

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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 is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.