Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

- Sarnoff, David

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Meredith, Owen

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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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

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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 loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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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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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 great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bono, Edward De

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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

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

Zee, James Van Der

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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 radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

The laws of Manu