Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Alcott, Louisa May

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Stein, Ben

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Epicurus

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

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

Saroyan, William

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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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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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Millman, Dan

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Al Batt

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.