Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

- Peterson, Wilferd A.

Best Quotes about Happiness

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Nielsen, A.

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Nicole Kidman

11.

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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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

25.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Oscar Levant

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

Bradley, Amanda

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

George Burns

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

Fielding, Henry

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.