Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

- King, Coretta Scott

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Dumas, Alexandre

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bierce, Ambrose

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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

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

Al Batt

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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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

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

Rooney, Andy

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Buchan, John

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

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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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 neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dalai Lama

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David