Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Happiness

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bono, Edward De

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Yeats, William Butler

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Bradley, Amanda

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Meredith, Owen

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

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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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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

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques