Motivational Quotes

Happiness

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

- Laura Moncur

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Dalai Lama

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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 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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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 arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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

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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

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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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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.