Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Confucius

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

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Dalai Lama

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

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Christopher Morley

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Roy M. Goodman

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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 conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Rohn, Jim

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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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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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

William Cowper

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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 is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Josh Billings

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Stossel, John

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Horton, Doug

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.