Motivational Quotes

Happiness

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Lao-tzu

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Meredith, Owen

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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?

Caron, Leslie

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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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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Christopher Morley

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Millman, Dan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.