Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Prutz

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Goodman, Roy

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Jonathan Haidt

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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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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.