Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Thomas Szasz

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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 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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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

Hesse, Hermann

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

James Oppenheim

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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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 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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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

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb, Scottish