Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Greene, Graham

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

Prutz

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.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

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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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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 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

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

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Boone, Daniel

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Lao-tzu

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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 is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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.