Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Bono, Edward De

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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 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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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.

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

John Berry

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Stein, Ben

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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.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John