Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

- Meredith, Owen

Best Quotes about Happiness

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

David Assael

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

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

10.

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

Epicurus

11.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

12.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

13.

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

14.

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

15.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

16.

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

Cloete, Stuart

17.

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.

18.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

19.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

21.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

22.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

23.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

25.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

26.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

27.

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

Huxley, Aldous

28.

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

Byron, Lord

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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

30.

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

31.

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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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Roy M. Goodman

34.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

36.

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

37.

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

Dalai Lama

38.

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

39.

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

Jeans, Sir James

40.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

43.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

44.

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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.