Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Goodman, Roy

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

10.

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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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

21.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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