Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Chambers, Oswald

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stein, Ben

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

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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.