Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

- Maurier, Daphne Du

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Billings, Josh

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Stein, Ben

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Wilde, Oscar

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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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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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Bob Newhart

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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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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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Fielding, Henry

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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