Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Anderson, Greg

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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

Cloete, Stuart

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 greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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

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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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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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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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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

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

Prutz

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Ketchel, Holly

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.