Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Prutz

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proust, Marcel

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.