Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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 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

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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 end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Byron, Lord

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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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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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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