Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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.

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

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Robert Frost

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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 not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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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

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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 is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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

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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

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

Stein, Ben

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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 does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Epicurus

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert