Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

James Oppenheim

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

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

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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 not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Benjamin Franklin

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bob Newhart

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Feather, William

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.