Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Confucius

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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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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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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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 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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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.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ayn Rand

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Stossel, John

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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