Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Happiness

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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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