Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

- Sweetland, Ben

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Christopher Morley

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

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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

Stossel, John

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

21.

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Jonathan Haidt

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Garrison, Theodosia