Motivational Quotes

Happiness

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

- Nash, Fay B.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Bradley, Amanda

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

John Berry

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

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Abraham Lincoln

10.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

11.

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

12.

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

13.

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

23.

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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

Meredith, Owen

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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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

39.

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.