Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Rohn, Jim

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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.

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mason, John L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Stossel, John

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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 in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

Dalai Lama

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Herold, Don

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Ketchel, Holly