Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Happiness

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Jean Houston

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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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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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Herold, Don

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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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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Camus, Albert

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

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

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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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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

William Cowper

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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.

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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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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 never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel