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

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.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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 always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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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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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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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Prutz

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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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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Aristotle

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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're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De