Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Oscar Levant

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

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Yeats, William Butler

10.

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

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Feather, William

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

18.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

19.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Jean Houston

29.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

32.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

33.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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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

35.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

36.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

37.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

John Berry

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

45.

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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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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