Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Roy M. Goodman

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

James Oppenheim

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Stossel, John

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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 happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Oliphant, Margaret