Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Christopher Morley

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Waitley, Denis

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Mason, John L.