Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

- C. P. Snow

Best Quotes about Happiness

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

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

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Fountain., John

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Prutz

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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Chuck Sigars