Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Proust, Marcel

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.

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

Cloete, Stuart

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Dalai Lama

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Solon

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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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 is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Prutz

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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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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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Muller, Max

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry