Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jefferson, Thomas

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Goodman, Roy

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

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

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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 is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Yeats, William Butler

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Solon

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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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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Greene, Graham