Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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Best Quotes about Happiness

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Bono, Edward De

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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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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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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.

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

Ayn Rand

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Oscar Levant

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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