Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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

Al Batt

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Proverb, Scottish

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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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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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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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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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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!