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

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

David Assael

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

Upanishads, Veda

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dalai Lama

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Fountain., John

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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.

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

Feather, William

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars