Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Lao-Tzu

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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 makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

22.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Mason, John L.

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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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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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.

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

38.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

Nielsen, A.

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt