Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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

The laws of Manu

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Ketchel, Holly

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Oscar Levant

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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 not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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.

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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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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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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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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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Herold, Don

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

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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von