Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

- Al Batt

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

William Cowper

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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

Muller, Max

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

Rohn, Jim

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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 brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Lao-tzu

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Mason, John L.

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

John Berry

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler