Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Camus, Albert

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred