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

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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.

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

Bono, Edward De

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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

Herold, Don

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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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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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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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 is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Byron, Lord

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

Chuck Sigars

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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