Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

- Schachtel, Rabbi H.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Bono, Edward De

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Feather, William

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Stossel, John

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Christopher Morley

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

William Cowper

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.