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

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Dumas, Alexandre

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Mason, John L.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

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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

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

William Cowper

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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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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

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Lao-tzu

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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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

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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

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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 comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Nicole Kidman

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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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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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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 adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.