Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Stein, Ben

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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 is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Waitley, Denis

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Solon

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume