Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Lao-tzu

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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 search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden