Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Ayn Rand

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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 happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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 not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Herold, Don

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Goodman, Roy

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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 comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.