Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

- Zee, James Van Der

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

William Cowper

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

Boone, Daniel

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

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

Muller, Max

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Fielding, Henry

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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 not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Anderson, Greg

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von