Motivational Quotes

Happiness

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Happiness

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Levenson, Samuel

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

17.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

19.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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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

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

Goodman, Roy

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

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

34.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

44.

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''

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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 greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von