Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Christopher Morley

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Fountain., John

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Oprah Winfrey

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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