Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

George Burns

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Waitley, Denis

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

10.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

11.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

13.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

14.

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 the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Billings, Josh

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

John Berry

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Mason, John L.

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

David Assael

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

31.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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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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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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