Motivational Quotes

Happiness

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

- Sivananda, Sri Swami

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Cloete, Stuart

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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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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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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.

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Solon

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman