Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

David Assael

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

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Lao-tzu

11.

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

12.

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Democritus

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

18.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Oprah Winfrey

20.

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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

22.

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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 secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Ayn Rand

32.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

33.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

34.

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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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.

40.

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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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