Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Yeats, William Butler

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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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.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Robert Frost

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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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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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

John Berry

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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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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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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous