Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness lies first of all in health.

- Curtis, George William

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Ketchel, Holly

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Prutz

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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

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Chambers, Oswald

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Nash, Ogden

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

C. P. Snow

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Dyer, Wayne