Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Horton, Doug

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Prazlin, Duchess

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Muller, Max

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Greene, Graham

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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 not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

William Cowper

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Lao-tzu

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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.