Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Bob Newhart

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

Feather, William

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

Jackson, Holbrook

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Horace

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Roy M. Goodman

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Goodman, Roy

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

The laws of Manu

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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