Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

- Rubin, Theodore I.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Oscar Levant

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Herold, Don

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward 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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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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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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 is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.