Motivational Quotes

Happiness

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Happiness

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Camus, Albert

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

10.

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

Ketchel, Holly

11.

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

Boone, Daniel

12.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

13.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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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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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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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 secret of happiness is something to do.

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

John Berry

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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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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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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

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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.

30.

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Dalai Lama

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Smith, Adam

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

40.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

43.

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 a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.