Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Apollinaire, Guillaume

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Muller, Max

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

Schweitzer, Albert

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

James Oppenheim

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

Saroyan, William

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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 of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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 and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Landor, Walter Savage