Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Christopher Morley

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Stossel, John

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

Abraham Lincoln

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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 grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

James Oppenheim

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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

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan