Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Happiness

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

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

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

10.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

12.

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

13.

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

David Assael

15.

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

Solon

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

Brande, Dorothea

18.

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

19.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

Addison, Joseph

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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

Josh Billings

25.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bob Newhart

30.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

33.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Billings, Josh

35.

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

37.

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

38.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

43.

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 pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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