Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Happiness

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Feather, William

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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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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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Lao-Tzu

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.