Motivational Quotes

Happiness

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

Chuck Sigars

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Christopher Morley

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

Cloete, Stuart

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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