Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Nicole Kidman

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Democritus

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

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

Prutz

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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Kin Hubbard

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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

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

William Cowper

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William