Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

- William Cowper

Best Quotes about Happiness

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Muller, Max

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

Stein, Ben

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

Storm Jameson

10.

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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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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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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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 a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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 not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Farrall, Joseph

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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 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 is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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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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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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 is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Oprah Winfrey