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

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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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

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Nicole Kidman

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Horton, Doug

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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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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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.