Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Muller, Max

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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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 human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri 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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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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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Lao-Tzu

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Storm Jameson

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

James Oppenheim

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

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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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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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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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.