Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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Best Quotes about Happiness

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Fielding, Henry

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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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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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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 comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

David Assael

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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?