Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

The laws of Manu

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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.

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

Millman, Dan

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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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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Abraham Lincoln

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Bono, Edward De

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

John Berry

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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

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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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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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.