Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

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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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

Byron, Lord

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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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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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lao-tzu

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Goodman, Roy

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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

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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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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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing