Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

- Rohr, Richard

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

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

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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 is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb