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

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Mason, John L.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Kennedy, John F.

29.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

John Berry

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

35.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold