Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Ayn Rand

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ann Radcliffe

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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.

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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

Prevert, Jacques

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Smith, Adam

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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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, 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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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

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Anderson, Greg