Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

- Prutz

Best Quotes about Happiness

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Mason, John L.

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

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

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

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Nicole Kidman

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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 small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

David Assael

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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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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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Stein, Ben

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Benjamin Franklin

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas