Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

- Dumas, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Waitley, Denis

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

David Assael

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Josh Billings

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

James Oppenheim

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Ayn Rand

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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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 consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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