Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Happiness

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dalai Lama

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Buchan, John

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Byron, Lord

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

Horton, Doug

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

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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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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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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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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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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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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