Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Roy M. Goodman

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Oprah Winfrey

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Stossel, John

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 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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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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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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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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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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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 is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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

The laws of Manu

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic