Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Happiness

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Mason, John L.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Oliphant, Margaret

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Billings, Josh

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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

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

Diderot, Denis

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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

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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