Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Diderot, Denis

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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.

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

11.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

14.

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

Buchan, John

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Stossel, John

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

27.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

29.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

32.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

33.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Prutz

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Christopher Morley

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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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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.