Motivational Quotes

Happiness

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

- Laura Moncur

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Rohn, Jim

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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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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

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Greene, Graham

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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

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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... 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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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 isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

George Burns

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor