Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

Zee, James Van Der

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

Jefferson, Thomas

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

David Assael

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Lao-tzu

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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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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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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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

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce