Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Meredith, Owen

Best Quotes about Happiness

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Oliphant, Margaret

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Greene, Graham

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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 a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.