Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about 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

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Ann Radcliffe

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Lucian

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 is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

11.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Fichte, Johann G.

16.

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

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Prutz

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

29.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

30.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

31.

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Roy M. Goodman

37.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Byron, Lord

42.

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

Christopher Morley

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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 when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall