Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Josh Billings

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Saroyan, William

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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 arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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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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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Mason, John L.

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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 a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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 good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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.

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

Diderot, Denis

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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