Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Mason, John L.

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Christopher Morley

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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 adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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