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

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Mill, John Stuart

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Aristotle

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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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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 great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

34.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Benjamin Franklin

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Roy M. Goodman

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Smith, Adam

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