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

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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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 find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

Nielsen, A.

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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

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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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 good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

Upanishads, Veda

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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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

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Goodman, Roy

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.