Motivational Quotes

Happiness

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Josh Billings

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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 pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

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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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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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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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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Hoffer, Eric