Pursuit Of Happiness Quotes

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Life, Positive, Happiness

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Denis Waitley

Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C.P. Snow

Love, Happiness, Happy

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Life, Change, Happiness

Declaration of Independence (1776).

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It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

Chris Gardner

Thinking, Independence, Liberty

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

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 02, 2015

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hill

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness.

Robert Henri

Happiness, Men, Pursuit

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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Joyce Grenfell

Discovery, Funeral, Joy

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You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Eric Hoffer

Happiness, Being Happy, Simple

"Living Our Values, Closing the Ethical Gap" by Jeffrey Rubin, bigthink.com.

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

Happiness, Truth, Honesty

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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Jimmy Carter

Life, Spiritual, Patriotic

"President, peacemaker, peanut farmer". www.cnn.com. October 11, 2002.

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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

John Barrymore

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

Positive, Birthday, Happiness

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Stark

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.27, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

George A. Sheehan

Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Positive, Happiness, Being Happy

Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1417, Barbour Publishing

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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.

Thomas Jefferson

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

John Lennon

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

Thomas Jefferson

Government, People, Liberty

Declaration of Independence (1776).

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If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton

Happiness, Happy, Women

"Ethan Frome".

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

"Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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