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

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Josh Billings

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Democritus

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

George Burns

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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 lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Lao-tzu

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Christopher Morley

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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