Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Happiness

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Bob Newhart

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

Rooney, Andy

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Diderot, Denis

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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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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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 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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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Lao-Tzu

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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 experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug