Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

Chuck Sigars

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

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

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Lucian

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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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.