Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Happiness

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Oliphant, Margaret

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Ketchel, Holly

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

Stein, Ben

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

Confucius

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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.