Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Best Quotes about Happiness

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Lao-tzu

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Diderot, Denis

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dalai Lama

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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 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 comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques