Motivational Quotes

Happiness

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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.

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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 lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Christopher Morley

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stein, Ben

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Prutz

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Meredith, Owen

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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bob Newhart

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Byron, Lord