Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

- Douglas, Norman

Best Quotes about Happiness

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Robert Frost

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Douglas, Norman

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

James Oppenheim

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Chuck Sigars

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper