Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

- Clyde, R.D.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Prutz

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 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.

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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.