Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Hesse, Hermann

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.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Goodman, Roy

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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 is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

John Berry

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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 of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

William Cowper

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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