Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Muller, Max

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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 world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Prevert, Jacques

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Byron, Lord

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

Goodman, Roy

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Feather, William

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

Herold, Don

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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

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

John Berry

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

The laws of Manu

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Stossel, John