Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a sort of action.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Happiness

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Bono, Edward De

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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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

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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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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Fountain., John

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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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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 ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.