Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

James Oppenheim

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Muller, Max

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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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 adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Jean Houston

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Robert Frost

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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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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

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Mason, John L.

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.