Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

- Jeans, Sir James

Best Quotes about Happiness

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Waitley, Denis

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Buchan, John

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Lao-tzu

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

John Berry

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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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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Feather, William

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

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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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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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 a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Mahatma Gandhi