Motivational Quotes

Happiness

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

- Buchan, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Upanishads, Veda

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Maxwell, William

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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)

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

Bono, Edward De

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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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 is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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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 a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Muller, Max

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Thomas Szasz

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Feather, William

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.