Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Lao-tzu

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Boone, Daniel

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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 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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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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Camus, Albert

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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 lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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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 arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman