Motivational Quotes

Happiness

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Mill, John Stuart

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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 is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Goodman, Roy

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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 is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Bob Newhart

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

James Oppenheim

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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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Mason, John L.

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John