Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Confucius

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

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

Prutz

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mahatma Gandhi

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goodman, Roy

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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 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

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.