Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Happiness

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Bob Newhart

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

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.

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

Meredith, Owen

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

William Cowper

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

Farrall, Joseph

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

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

Prutz

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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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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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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 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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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Solon

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.