Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Feather, William

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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.

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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 is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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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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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 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

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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