Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Sokoloff, Boris

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hoffer, Eric

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Democritus

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

David Assael

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

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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

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

Roy M. Goodman

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Lao-Tzu

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Abraham Lincoln

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Robert Frost

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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 a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

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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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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De