Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Sokoloff, Boris

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Herold, Don

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Horton, Doug

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lao-tzu

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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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 comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Feather, William

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Nicole Kidman

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau