Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Roy M. Goodman

Best Quotes about Happiness

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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

Dalai Lama

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

The laws of Manu

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.

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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 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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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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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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 most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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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

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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 not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Greene, Graham

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.