Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kin Hubbard

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

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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

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

Feather, William

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

10.

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

14.

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

15.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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)

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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.

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

Epictetus

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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Bob Newhart

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas