Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

John Berry

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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 secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lao-tzu

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

Alda, Alan

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Feather, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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

Democritus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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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

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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 comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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.