Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Proverb, Scottish

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Prevert, Jacques

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Democritus

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Meltzer, Bernard