Motivational Quotes

Happiness

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

- Proverb, Hasidic

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Epictetus

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

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

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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 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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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

Prutz

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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 by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.