Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Joy comes from using your potential.

- Schultz, Will

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

J.K. Rowling

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

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.

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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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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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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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... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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

William Cowper

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Byron, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Prevert, Jacques

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

Macewan, Norman

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.