Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rockefeller, John D.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Christopher Morley

11.

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

Herold, Don

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Proust, Marcel

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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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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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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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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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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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Lao-Tzu

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Fountain., John

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Feather, William

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

James Oppenheim

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

Stossel, John

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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