Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness requires problems

- Hollingworth, H. L.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Aristotle

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

Yeats, William Butler

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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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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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 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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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Oscar Levant

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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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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor