Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Robert Frost

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Josh Billings

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Chuck Sigars

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 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 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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Lao-tzu

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bob Newhart

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

Waitley, Denis

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John