Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Heywood, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

J.K. Rowling

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Chuck Sigars

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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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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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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

David Assael

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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 is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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 activity.

Aristotle

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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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